Thanks for the link. I don't think your summary of it was that accurate, it was just one user being silly, really.

I think if anything this is another demonstration of the dangers of revisionism causing a complete ideological rot, because someone makes excuses for one thing and then that thing, having been excused, is used as an excuse for another, and so on. It comes across as being a slippery slope fallacy on my part, I'm well aware, but I've seen people do this several times.

I also think that one commenter was at least half right about private companies, in that it's more possible for one to be "nice" (in scare quotes) than a publicly-traded company that is dragged around much more actively by speculative market forces due to being controlled by the bourgeoisie as a class, as they said. Doesn't change that Valve is still a capitalist entity and no more proof is needed of its robbery of workers than that abominable mega-yacht that Gabe got, which completely discredits the "nice guy" performance. He's literally just Bill Gates for g*mers.