Am I just deceived? I think I might love him?

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    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.

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    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

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    Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.

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    I want to say that Gabe is a good guy, because he’s a gamer like many of us, and because Valve is so pro-consumer, and because supposedly the company is mostly rid of hierarchy, but he’s still a billionaire unfortunately.

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            I think the commenter is talking about the steam marketplace featuring a lot of CS assets which people do buy and sell for real money.

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              What I’m talking about is that there isn’t a way to “withdraw” your money like the illegal sites let you. So no, there isn’t a way to gamble through Steam.

              In fact, Steam does what they have the power to do in reporting those sites and getting them taken down.

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                Oh sorry, I always thought there was a way to withdraw money from your steam wallet to your bank account.

                I haven’t used steam in a few years though, and haven’t interacted with the marketplace in longer than that, so wouldn’t really know!

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    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…

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    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.