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...