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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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

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[–] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

We shouldn't eat them. I don't want prion disease.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

ABAB. All billionaires are bad.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

The fattest pigs make the crispiest bacon.

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

We can save him for desert.

In ten years people will talking about the GabeCube killing PC modularity like they always saw it coming

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll let the normies keep swift if we can keep gabe

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They are both part of the problem.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Why eat them? You better turn them to compost, so they can actually help something grow.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A billionaire is a billionaire. 🤷‍♂️

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Name some things that make Gabe a bad guy.

[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's not gonna give you a million dollars or a big wet kiss on the mouth dude, you can stop sticking up for the big nerd. He's a billionaire and chooses to continue being a billionaire - that is a BIG thing that makes him a bad person.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sticking up for anyone.. just commenting on the frequent shitty attitude people have around here.

[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

A shitty attitude, or an honest recognition of a massively unequal wealth distribution seeing very few very selfish people at the top hoard gigantic sums of money seemingly with the goal to just get more money, while so many of us struggle to get by working one, two, three jobs?

Because I'll agree, there's a lot of very pouty people on here that will bang on and moan endlessly about absolute bullshit. The insanity that one person can accumulate a billion dollars though? That's not bullshit. That's something to moan about.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago
[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

See, the thing is, once you eat the one percent, the bottom eighty percent want to eat.The top twenty percent and the bottom seventy percent want to eat.The top thirty percent.And then we just become the human centipede

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Honestly you shouldn't judge anyone as a group, even billionaires. They are not all evil, probably mostly evil though even if just in the basic sense of destroying the world for profit, both physically and in terms of human happiness.

The time we spent the past 20 years fighting surveillance, private political funding, and proprietary systems will never be given back to us. That is something more valuable than money that the billionaires have collectively taken from us. When we do finally get our rights and humanity reinstated properly, that will be a lot of near wasted time for millions of people. Gave was one of the good ones. He had principles no matter how much money he had which is commendable. I consider Bill Gates to be one of the good billionaires too. Windows wasn't really bad until he left the company.

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