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[–] 283 points 2 years ago (46 children)

Video game industry will collapse in on itself when Gabe Newell dies, and enshittification creeps into Steam.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I shall seize one of his yachts (probably metaphorically) and sail under the Jolly Roger when enshittification comes for Steam. Until then, it’s a pretty solid solution for buying PC games.

    Steam Deck is also amazing, in that it’s as simple as a Switch to get playing but open enough through desktop mode to do so much more. As your customer, thanks for not treating me like a paste eating delinquent.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Something I've been worried about for some time. I mean, I hope his death isn't soon, but we all know whoever steps in is most likely to royally fuck it up.

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    [–] 144 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Think the CEO of Costco did a similar move with the hot dogs

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  • [–] 216 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Close. The founder told the CEO if he raised the price on the hotdog "I will fucking kill you".

    So, who really gets the credit here is up to you.

    The person who threatened to kill the CEO if the CEO fucked his customers, or the CEO who didn't fuck his customers out of self-preservation?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Also. I believe, he also said , if the workers think they need a union, we’ve failed as managers.

    So. Yeah

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    “I came to [Sinegal] once and I said, ‘Jim, we can’t sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends,’” Jelinek recalled in a 2018 interview with 425 Business. “And he said, ‘If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.’”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/4696314-costcos-new-cfo-makes-announcement-about-1-50-hot-dog-combo/#%3A%7E%3Atext=We+are+losing+our+rear+ends%2C%27%E2%80%9D+Jelinek%2Ceffing+hot+dog%2C+I+will+kill+you.

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    CEO of Ben &Jerry's. They are not just posting the black square on their insta and then moving on, like half their posts are about fighting inequity, encouraging people to vote for actual human rights, openly pro abortion, pro immigrant rights, pro black rights, pro women's right, about fighting climate change etc. they are walking the walk, conservative dollars be damned

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    [–] 115 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    GabeN has been pretty cool.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Gabe has 6 yachts worth about $1 billion dollars. Not very cool at all, imho.

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  • [–] 109 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He didn't kill anyone by denying them insurance or anything like that tho. Just took a commission on every game sold on Steam, a platform nobody's forced to use.

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  • [–] 102 points 2 years ago (33 children)

    This CEO, Gabe Newell, and (if he was still alive) the founder of Little Caesars, who, if I recall correctly, secretly paid for Rosa Parks apartment until her death.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago

    The founder of Little Caesars was a typical magnate developer who bought up much of downtown Detroit and let it rot until he received tax incentives to build, and kicked out many low income residents from apartments he let sit until they got city money. His family continues this tradition. The Rosa Parks thing is the only good thing I've ever heard of that man and his family do.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Add Steve Wozniak to the list of the ones to be protected. The Woz has done more to pull people up and we should all aspire to that level if we ever have the means.

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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    CEOs should just be elected by the employees

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Couple of British examples of what should be the standard for modern business:

    Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds (hifi store in the UK), seems like one of the better capitalists around. He signed over majority control of the company to an employee trust when he turned 60, donates 15% of their profit to charity, runs a nonprofit dedicated to exposing corporate tax avoidance, campaigns against zero hours contracts, and devotes company resources to promoting unsigned bands: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Richer

    James Timpson recently stepped down as CEO of Timpson, another UK retailer that specialises in things like key cutting, shoe repairs, passport photos etc. He made it company policy to hire people who had been to prison and help them get back on their feet, and his campaign for prison reform saw him step down from the company to become Minister for Prisons in the current government. The company has a "Director of Happiness" who is paid to keep the front line staff happy, resulting in policies like getting the day off work on your kid's first day of school, compassionate leave for the death of a pet, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timpson_(retailer)

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is the CEO of costco still a decent guy?

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Newman's Own salad dressing. Privately owned and all profits go to charity.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    Craig Jelinek the (CEO of costco until recently) was always considered a good guy for putting his employees first and concentrating on keeping a high bar for product quality.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Any CEO that champions OpenSource software is good enough to me

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All of them

    at minimum wage

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Any CEO that is willing to part with 50% or more of their wealth before they die and not to their family or close friends, should be good. No idea about names

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