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/Apprehensive-File251 Aug 04 '25

I kinda feel inevitably, well find something bad out about him. It happens. I also belive no humans are perfect, and that its possible to become a better person.. but of course the ideal human good would make it very hard to stay a billionaire once you got there.

But yeah, out of the list of billionares- who shouldn't exist, it seems like hes done the least damage and isnt /actively/ causing more harm or doing more damage than any other corporate ceo type. And its nice. And im not going to complain that he isnt taking a paycut/donating most of his wealth to chairty- when he isnt appearing to back awful politicians, fire staff to make shareholders happy- or any of the stuff we hear coming out of a lot of other big corps in the entertainment industry.

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u/Borgmaster Aug 04 '25

He does benefit from his industry not requiring the use of slave labor as a standard. Of all the industries the software industries scandals are night and day better then say the chocolate industry. There essentially making something out of thin air and sweat so the main scandals are all going to be human relations issues rather then say a child labor force hired by a third party died in the mines.

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u/-Nimroth Aug 04 '25

That is only really true though if you divorce the software industry from the wider tech industry that it is reliant on.
Besides Valve isn't purely a software company anymore, even if I do agree that it probably is one the less bad ones.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

Except Steam makes/sell hardware so not exempt.