Valve invented or normalised a ton of crap that's plaguing modern gaming: game launchers, always online DRM, microtransactions, achivements, lootboxes...

I'm not saying you should stop using Steam. Go ahead, buy the Frame, VR is awesome and it looks like a really solid headset, but do it without kissing Gabe's ass if you can. Corpos are not your friends.

I'd give all the billionaires the same choice:

(a) Give away everything except, say, 25 million.

(b) Guillotine.

If he continues to be a billionaire, yes.

Amassing that level of wealth is not an accident, it's by choice.

There is no such thing as a good billionaire. There are billionaires who might be temporarily aligned with you but make no mistake, none of them will love you back..

Valve is in a very unique spot where employees are all paid well because of the low amount of employees they have and the massive income they generate; in their employee reviews you typically don't really see low salary as a reason to leave.

Billionaires aren't your friends. Corporations aren't your friends.

He has 6 yachts from kiddie gambling...

Why? He takes a 30% cut from every game sale just because his platform has a dominant grasp on gamers.

I don’t understand how people can hate taxes (which go on to pay for schools and roads) but not the way larger cut that digital storefronts charge.

Idealizing billionaires is cringe. Eat them all. Just because he's not a complete asshole like all the other parasites doesn't make him a good person. He's still a parasite.

Look, he can be a rich guy and a leader. 1 billion is a decent line in the sand of "sorry, you own too much". He's certainly not as nakedly evil as most the rest of his ilk.

Being a billionaire is immoral in all cases

In my opinion if anyone has billions of dollars and hasn't given a majority of it away to charity or those in need, that person is on some level at least somewhat an evil person.

Sure, much of it would be tied up in stocks and stuff that legally can't be sold for specific purposes or timeframes, but if you have net worth in the billions and any stocks that could be sold for cash and then donated it should be. Or if you have an annual income that's much more than you need to live an extremely comfortable life and then you just spend and invest the excess instead of donate.

A billionaire who gives away 99% of their wealth to the poorest, first and exclusively, isn't a billionaire, and still has enough money (maybe more!) for the rest of time.

He's just another fat dragon who got rich exploiting people through ownership of capital.
Then he got children hooked on gambling because one billion wasn't enough.

He deserves to be locked up like the rest of them.

Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.

This is really simple. If you have more than a 1000 million dollars. Every day you decide to keep it instead of saving lives and helping people. It will never be moral

Take all of his assets, let him live. Then take all of his assets again 5 years later

"Billionaire" is a convenient modern buzzword. It used to be "millionaire". The classic joke from Austin Powers where Dr. Evil demands money is a good example. It's just inflation.

Plus, a lot of "billionaires" are only considers such because they own shares in their corporations. It's a "theoretically if they could find a way to sell all of those shares at the current price without tanking the market value of those shares in the process, they could get $X billion from that".

If there were a theoretical global revolution, on of the the first steps of eating the rich is to seize and nationalize those businesses. Later, land reform will seize the extra mansions they own. They will still be left with adequate personal property to live quite comfortably. Finally, the justice system will need to evaluate what labor laws (or other laws) they may have been violating for years and using their wealth to get away with.

Start with the biggest fish and watch as the rest start to downsize voluntarily and cut deals to avoid jail.

I don't expect to see any of this in my lifetime. Not in any major country, and certainly not globally.

Fuck him too

We can save him for desert.

Only if he gives up his power and privilege permanently

He's low on the list for sure

We don't have to eat them all, but we do have to take their money.

He can buy his freedom by using his wealth to finally release hl3

If it were to be a revolution he would be given the chance. Just be a director of valve for a normal director salary. If he take it then he would be just another worker.

I'm not eating Elon Musk. That's like dumpster diving behind a cracker barrel.

I personally don't like the idea of murder, I'd if we-the-people get into power, just pass laws that taxes them, then enforce the law as such. If they resist, jailtime for tax evasion.

For those that are exceedingly cruel with their time as a billionaire, they get tried, judged by a jury of average people, 2/3 is a conviction (as opposed to the unanimity required now), life imprisonment.

Billionaires and their heirs are deprived of political rights.

Easy peaceful transition. Zero bloodshed

I don't like bloodshed, because once that starts, once we "okay" mob killings, people are gonna attack anyone they don't like, including small bussiness owners they had a grudge against in the past.

I have empathy, I don't wanna see the streets filled with blood.

Valve makes tonnes of money from loot boxes or whatever they’re called. Basically a form of gambling.

It also just so happens that a great way of making a shit load of money is making it super easy for people to buy from you. Valves big competitive advantage is just… not fucking that up. A surprising number of companies fuck that up.

And as someone else said, Gabe doesn’t have to be a billionaire. He could use his phenomenal wealth to build hospitals and help the poor, rather than building his own little private navy.

Valve is doing a lot that will make people like them, but they’re still a huge corporation, and Gabe is still a billionaire.