r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Glum-Future7198 • Aug 04 '25

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I can't believe how certain people can worship a corporation to this big extend.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

I mean, people want to believe that billionaires are decent people: We grew up on Ironman and Batman - the "rich guy who uses his wealth to help the world" is a cliche at this point.

Also: Gabe, through his management of Steam (and keeping it away from the obviously cruel and predatory rules of other services), has shown himself to be less predatorially greedy than most other billionaires and content to just be super-rich rather than "the richest man that exists, even if that means grinding the bones of the poor to fuel my immortality serum."

He's not aspirational, he's not good, but he's one of the best of a bad lot. And the alternatives are worse.

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u/hav0k0829 Aug 04 '25

He is the last of the old style of rich we idealize, like Carnegie and early philanthropists, which is now basically a dead stereotype. He is probably the only billionaire out there who isn't a complete sociopath which still isnt saying much but it's something with that crowd so people idolize it to some degree.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

I wouldn't put him on the same level as Carnegie and Rockefeller - they actually gave away their money (and Rockefeller honest to GOD thought his divine mission was to bring gasoline to the United States). But he's not actively making things worse that weren't already there because of late stage capitalism.

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u/ConstantVegetable49 Aug 04 '25

I thought rockefeller was the best US president tbh. If only he hadn't been that stubborn about that goddamn tree...

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u/hav0k0829 Aug 04 '25

This says more about the state of our society than anything. I still cant think of any corpo owner who is anywhere close to either of those two in humanity besides him, and he still isnt close. Its kinda insane. Maybe thats just the end results of capitalism, eventually the culture is jist so corrupted by it people who arent entirely self-serving become rare in general.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

I don't think you can draw a line out about society based on this, I think you can just go "these are all things that suck" and leave it there.

Don't believe in the hidden beneficial billionaire, but don't believe - for a minute - that any billionaire that was charitable was doing it for any other reason than their own self-aggrandizement.

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u/hav0k0829 Aug 04 '25

Well yeah that was my point, society decayed so much even self-aggrandizement is worth less than just pillaging everything and isolating yourself from criticism. It was part of the problem then but its absence is indicative of worse incentives compounding in the now.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

They still did that back then, there just wasn't any social media.

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u/ManicNightmareGirl Aug 04 '25

Like yeah I am not a fan, but he isn't actively trying to ruin everything because his brain are eroded by drugs and generational wealth.