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Gabe Newell has an $11bn net worth so he hasn't exactly been not squeezing.
by ThrowawayR2 19d ago
Gabe Newell has an $11bn net worth so he hasn't exactly been not squeezing.
- mrgoldenbrown 19d agoI think Gabe is an example of how you can stop at absurdly rich and still make your customers happy. The enshittification is only necessary to go beyond absurdly rich.
- ThrowawayR2 19d agoHe's somewhere in the top 300 wealthiest people in the world; forget one-percenter, that's something like top 0.00001%. He definitely has done a lot of nice things for gaming and I hope he continues to do so for the rest of his days but let's not pretend he's not beyond absurdly rich.
- N_Lens 18d agoI think there’s two separate things here that you seem to be conflating - absurdly rich and unethical. I’d argue Newell is mostly the former; though many or most billionaires align on both those metrics.
- ahartmetz 19d agoHe could have gotten $5bn ten years ago (for great justic... quarterly results) and then have his lunch eaten by Epic and GOG. He clearly doesn't understand how to do current year capitalism.
- Cthulhu_ 19d agoDoes he even have his own cryptocurrency? (don't answer that, it does exist because people make shitcoins for everything: https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/4CF8Ek5DEiYtP1YuqomDdhkeScoExu4UTdFX9BB9pump https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/4CF8Ek5DEiYtP1YuqomDdhkeSc...)
- andai 18d agoIs Coca Cola squeezing me, too?
- N_Lens 18d agoYes? Read about their water rights lobbying and lobbying against plastic recycling regulations. Our descendents have to deal with Coca Cola’s externalities. You can’t see these second order effects immediately, which is understandable, but coca cola is massively extractive.
- N_Lens 18d agoI think his company has created far more value and goodwill than his networth indicates. True juicers like Bezos and Musk are different.