I think these are all … revolving around the same ship, not 100% sure.
Yeah he’s a billionaire, but he at least seems to be an old school tycoon in the sense of… doing actual philanthropy, instead of fancy accounting fraud / money laundering with a non profit happy face on top.
Also, barely anyone knows much about this, so… probably not a naked ploy for positive PR?
EDIT:
If he buys an entire island, or starts trying to do ‘sea-steading’, then we should be concerned.
That shit is… insane diamond hands crypto ancap fucking nonsense, unless or untill someone actually comes up with an actual well thought out plan… So far all I’ve seen is complete idiocy at being anything than an elaborate fraud.
If Gabe goes full Andrew Ryan/Cave Johnson, then yeah, we have a problem.
To my knowledge… he basically just has more money than he knows what to do with, so he tries to fund things that would be difficult to fund otherwise, that he also finds neat.
He’s also basically founded a seemingly much more legitimate than Elon’s neuralink type thing, that does novel research into BCI/brain implants, but like, targetted at actual medical breakthroughs, not like, trying to make a mass consumer general use product.
Yeah he’s a billionaire, but he at least seems to be an old school tycoon in the sense of… doing actual philanthropy, instead of fancy accounting fraud / money laundering with a non profit happy face on top.
He owns a fleet o megayachts and one of the biggest companies making these who commissioned megayachts for bezos and russian oligarchs, he’s just a piece of shit like all the others. We are on the verge of a climate disaster, one of these boats consume in one hour as much you will do in your lifetime, stop wasting your time defending this idiot, he’s not a scientist.
To my knowledge… he basically just has more money than he knows what to do with,
To my knowledge you don’t end up with more money than you know what to do with by being a good person. Valve did a lot of shit such as promoting gambling to kids
Never said he was a scientist. Showed that he hires scientists to make use of his toys.
Yep, he’s a billionaire, thats bad, i’d prefer he’d just give every steam user a proportional refund with his excess money, that would do more practical good.
Yep, promoting/facilitating gambling to/for kids is in fact immensely shitty and should be stopped, victims should be compensated.
Yep, owning a small fleet of megayachts is very bad for the climate, very selfish, frankly ridiculous.
Yes. Billionaires are, in fact, inherently bad. There is no reason for billionaires to exist. As wealth increases, taxes should increase - not to banktupt them, but to limit the massive amounts of wealth any one person can control.
They make their wealth on the backs of the public good - on the backs of the rest of us. Corporations steal our wages, and I don’t mean just actively, but by paying us less than we should be paid. Wealth inequality is unconsciable. Especially when people are dying because our social safety nets have been plundered for decades.-
Billionaires benefit from government and society - that’s how they became billionaires. They should pay back their fair share in the form of taxes, and taxes should fund things that benefit the people and society.
Wow what an original thought. Its always important to lump everyone into a stereotype, that is the best way to talk about people, right?
But in general I agree, there should be a limit to how much wealth people can accumulate. It just shouldn’t be possible. But who let that happen? People.
You make that sound like billionaires aren’t fighting tooth and nail to keep their fortunes. Gabe could pay his employees more, he could donate his money, he could do a myriad of different things with it, but no he chooses to keep it and buy yachts. Does that make him evil? I’d sure as hell argue that it does.
What I’ve heard is he wanted to refit the yacht that he bought, so it could support a deep sea submersible.
So… to expedite the refit, he essentially just bought the entire dockyard, the company that owns it. Literal fuck you money lol.
And he does legit use that yacht/remote submersible to sail out to deep seas, exploring the hadal zones south of Japan, other places.
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/gabe-newell-inkfish-unclassified-ocean-creature/
As I’ve said in other threads, dude is just actually playing Subnautica IRL.
https://youtube.com/@inkfishexpeditions
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-explorer-vessel-08172025.php
https://www.vard.com/articles/inkfish-and-vard-signs-contract-on-groundbreaking-research-vessel
https://www.parliament.gov.to/en/media-centre/latest-news/inkfish-presents-findings-from-2024-scientific-expedition-in-tonga-s-waters
I think these are all … revolving around the same ship, not 100% sure.
Yeah he’s a billionaire, but he at least seems to be an old school tycoon in the sense of… doing actual philanthropy, instead of fancy accounting fraud / money laundering with a non profit happy face on top.
Also, barely anyone knows much about this, so… probably not a naked ploy for positive PR?
EDIT:
If he buys an entire island, or starts trying to do ‘sea-steading’, then we should be concerned.
That shit is… insane diamond hands crypto ancap fucking nonsense, unless or untill someone actually comes up with an actual well thought out plan… So far all I’ve seen is complete idiocy at being anything than an elaborate fraud.
If Gabe goes full Andrew Ryan/Cave Johnson, then yeah, we have a problem.
To my knowledge… he basically just has more money than he knows what to do with, so he tries to fund things that would be difficult to fund otherwise, that he also finds neat.
He’s also basically founded a seemingly much more legitimate than Elon’s neuralink type thing, that does novel research into BCI/brain implants, but like, targetted at actual medical breakthroughs, not like, trying to make a mass consumer general use product.
https://starfishneuroscience.com/
Judge for yourself of course, I’ve not deeply looked into these things, just apparently a bit more than most.
I can say that I haven’t heard of any pigs or monkeys being horrifically tortured, so that’s probably good.
He owns a fleet o megayachts and one of the biggest companies making these who commissioned megayachts for bezos and russian oligarchs, he’s just a piece of shit like all the others. We are on the verge of a climate disaster, one of these boats consume in one hour as much you will do in your lifetime, stop wasting your time defending this idiot, he’s not a scientist.
To my knowledge you don’t end up with more money than you know what to do with by being a good person. Valve did a lot of shit such as promoting gambling to kids
You are insanely aggro for basically no reason.
Never said he was a scientist. Showed that he hires scientists to make use of his toys.
Yep, he’s a billionaire, thats bad, i’d prefer he’d just give every steam user a proportional refund with his excess money, that would do more practical good.
Yep, promoting/facilitating gambling to/for kids is in fact immensely shitty and should be stopped, victims should be compensated.
Yep, owning a small fleet of megayachts is very bad for the climate, very selfish, frankly ridiculous.
There, are you satisfied?
Done assuming my thoughts and positions?
Edit: I was being mean but it is a cool boat so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
My billionaire is better then your billionaire because he owns something I like.
well yeah. Do you have a point?
billionaires bad.
Yes. Billionaires are, in fact, inherently bad. There is no reason for billionaires to exist. As wealth increases, taxes should increase - not to banktupt them, but to limit the massive amounts of wealth any one person can control.
They make their wealth on the backs of the public good - on the backs of the rest of us. Corporations steal our wages, and I don’t mean just actively, but by paying us less than we should be paid. Wealth inequality is unconsciable. Especially when people are dying because our social safety nets have been plundered for decades.-
Billionaires benefit from government and society - that’s how they became billionaires. They should pay back their fair share in the form of taxes, and taxes should fund things that benefit the people and society.
So yes. Billionaires bad. Inherently so.
Wow what an original thought. Its always important to lump everyone into a stereotype, that is the best way to talk about people, right?
But in general I agree, there should be a limit to how much wealth people can accumulate. It just shouldn’t be possible. But who let that happen? People.
So in the end: people are bad.
You make that sound like billionaires aren’t fighting tooth and nail to keep their fortunes. Gabe could pay his employees more, he could donate his money, he could do a myriad of different things with it, but no he chooses to keep it and buy yachts. Does that make him evil? I’d sure as hell argue that it does.
people bad.
Less bad != better
That is literally the definition
Only if you think in one dimension, absolutes.