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Net favorability of seven billionaires (lemmy.world)
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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Would be interesting to see the numbers for Gabe Newell, he always seems to somehow get away with being a billionaire without getting hated the way most publicly famous billionaires are.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gabe's crimes :

  • Billionaire
  • Charges 30% for steam sales
  • Cosmetics sold in valve games are the same level of gambling as pokemon cards, due to existence of secondary market.

Zuck's Crimes :

  • Violating privacy of every person for all time
  • Makes shitty deals with phone manufacturers to shoehorn his shit in there
  • Forces people to use whatsapp through network effects.
  • biased every election forever, caused resurgence of fascism and brexit.
  • Instagram resposible for influencers and self esteem issues in kids.

This might be why.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gabe also funds some kind of marine research, while Zuck funds his purchases of islands from Hawaii.

[–] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Cult of valve, yeah sure it's temporarily better than the competition but it's still a private company, yet the cult defends it uncritically, as if being forced to implement more regulation and consumer protection would hurt their poor billion dollar corporation.