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You can also exploit people with it. Kinda like a swiss knife of psychopathy.
This one is nice: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/258
Is it fair to say that Ayn Rand's philosophy is basically ruling our lives?
Of course everything a company does is in the best interest of the company.
That is not true, but that is part of the problem and also why Steam is at least a little better for us customers. Most companies only do what is good for the stakeholders short term, Valve does what is good for the company/single owner long term. And happy customers are good long-term, but not so important short-term.
It is still capitalism, and thus still terrible. But a tiny bit less terrible.
Like VW is paying out 4.5 billion € in dividends, while telling employees they have to cut wages. They played it clever by announcing huge layoffs, that can be prevented by cutting the wages now. But the Porsche-Piech family is a few billions richer now and will be a few billions richer at the end of the year.
On the plus side, real estate prices will likely continue to fall in the region.
This will play into it. But Valve allows stuff that cuts into their immediate profits, like e.g. third party sales. I think ensuring market dominance by ensuring customer satisfaction is the more important part of the decision. Steam is imo meant to stay a quality product with a reliable turnover. They are not aiming to become a bookmaker, like the play store or apple store basically are nowadays.
True, they have a lot of practice.
And Germany just learned "Never genocide the same people twice! Diversity is the key to genociding succesfully!"
I am sooo xxxx pissed. The EU had all the time in the world and all incentive imaginable to develop an "EU-OS" and an "EU-Office". Linux and other FOSS software was always there to build upon. And with EU founding it could have been an easy solution, making the world a better place in the process.
But instead so many xxx politicians rather made some nice deals...
Now we reap what the EU parliament did.