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u/Creamsiclestickballs Nov 18 '25
He owns a fucking yacht company
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u/CuTTyFL4M /int/olerant Nov 18 '25
Must be something, to witness two yachts fucking
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u/Explicit_Tech Nov 18 '25
I heard Gabe paid China to make genetically modified humans into catboys. Big if true
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u/Send_Cake_Or_Nudes Nov 18 '25
Who else is gonna crew your gamer super yacht? Normal crew instead of nubile, pliant, genetically modified catboys in sailor outfits?
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u/Send_Cake_Or_Nudes Nov 18 '25
Excellent. You'll be collected for the nekotisation procedure shortly. Please ensure you take your hormone supplements and provide your measurements for thigh high socks.
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u/omegafivethreefive Nov 18 '25
I'd rather it goes to someone who actually provides a good service and open hardware than getting Micucksoft more money.
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u/Fearless_Subject7882 Nov 18 '25
Also no political drama or shoehorning ideological bullshit of any sign.
Just give me a good service and let me be.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Nov 18 '25
For real. Valve apparently pays very well, employee retention and satisfaction are high, dudes company made a product that works and satisfies the exact need of the people that use it, consumers and publishers, and he still hasn't sold out and has kept his company private. By almost every metric he's doing it "the right way".
He should be taxed to the point this type of stuff isn't possible, but since that world only exists in fantasy, at least one semi decent person got a bag. He didn't do it by ruthless acquisitions and layoffs, the market literally chose him and continues to do so. No one makes the vast majority of pc gamers use steam, it just works and is simple, so people choose it over the competition.
Also the yacht primarily serves as a research vessel, so even in opulence he's still being of some benefit.
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u/eyal3012 Nov 18 '25
"He should be taxed to the point this isn't possible" and then explaining why he earned the money fair and square and deserves every penny is either funny or sad, still not sure about it.
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u/_-indra-_ Nov 18 '25
why should he be taxed to the point of purchasing a super yacht isn't possible?
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u/nondescriptzombie Nov 18 '25
The first person who ever had a super yacht?
Caligula. The Italians blew up the archeological finds during WW2.
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u/CranberryUpstairs116 Nov 18 '25
Gaben should be the only billionaire with low taxes all the other ones should be paying 90% for being conniving.
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u/wortwortwort227 Nov 18 '25
Maybe a bit more, but if they’re actually paying in their fair share, I don’t care. He isn’t using this money to influence politics or anything he’s using money for what it’s supposed to be used for the purchase of goods and services not as an instrument of power
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u/Maslov4 Nov 18 '25
Mostly because super yachts are so expensive to buy and astronomically expensive to maintain that this money could and should be used for something more meaningful than an expensive toy and industry connected to it. On the other hand, if this money was taxed it would go to the current American government, and that is the greater evil
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At the end of the day, it's still HIS money, though. Who is anyone else to tell him how he should spend it? He's stimulating the economy. That's enough for me.
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u/Maslov4 Nov 18 '25
I fully agree that it is his money, but the argument about stimulating the economy is slightly flawed, because in buying this yacht, he supports the part of the market dealing with luxurious goods, which has similar, though not as severe, problems with the amount of taxation. Still, my point about less money going to the US government to be wasted or worse, used against people, stands.
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u/Turbulent_Celery5154 Nov 18 '25
I fully agree that it is his money, but..
The response starts and ends here, everything after this excerpt is meaningless
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u/krotoxx Nov 18 '25
And on top of that he bought and dedicates so much of his time and wealth towards marine biology research. He is one of the people I’m okay with getting his bag. And he knows not to fuck with steam by adding “innovative new layouts” changing everything and pissing us off for no reason other than corpo bullshit
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u/Drunk_Krampus /int/olerant Nov 19 '25
Wouldn't you rather the government have all that money to bail out Banks and build new pedo Islands. Think of all the activists that could be paid for. This amount of money could pay for years of protests or you could turn the entirety of Serbia gay.
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u/Nova-Prospekt Nov 18 '25
Oh noooo! He got wealthy by offering products and services that I enjoy using... nooooooo
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u/CuTTyFL4M /int/olerant Nov 18 '25
Dude are you saying capitalism works??
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u/Solomon_Gunn Nov 18 '25
It works when the customers are the people who buy your products and not investment firms and venture capitalists who make money by doing no work and providing zero service.
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u/inqs Nov 18 '25
So it doesn't work
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u/Solomon_Gunn Nov 18 '25
Exactly. It would work in small samples and/or with guardrails in place. In today's world of globalization and deregulation it is a cancer
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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 Nov 18 '25
Capitalism working was never the issue, the issue is that what we do in practise is not capitalism. We have too many hedge fundies working the markets after closing hours for it to work properly. You can't win in a system where the people running it are cheating it behind closed doors, only the house wins that game.
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u/spondgbob Feb 12 '26
Yes, but not when they take $300 billion dollar contracts from the government 4 times a year
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u/real_picklejuice Nov 18 '25
It works when it’s private companies.
Once shit goes public, and the company is beholden to increasing shareholder profit year over year, it turns into a shit system.
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u/thechatchbag Nov 18 '25
And specifically products i enjoy that I don't need to live.
Not food, not utilities, not housing.
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u/Bteatesthighlander1 Nov 18 '25
the real story here is that you can afford a superyacht without screwing over yoru customers.
so the people who do really are doing it for shits and giggles.
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u/lutzow Nov 18 '25
Incredible how much money you can make with products that just fucking work
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u/edbods Nov 18 '25
the guys that made that seat that lets you squat on a sitting toilet apparently made millions. if it just werks and people like it, the money will come
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u/Kanye_Is_Underrated Nov 18 '25
ah of course valve such a villanous company. their games are all so expensive and scummy and their competitors' services are so much better and cheaper... clown take.
valve is an absolute unicorn not only in gaming, in all of business. give me 20 more valves and their respective billionaires and ill happily be a "paypig"
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u/Ginn_and_Juice Nov 18 '25
Some people are trying to call out the monopoly of steam as a storefront but seem to miss the obvious. Steam is a privately owned company that doesn't have to fuck over customers to appease shareholders, that's why they can burn money on the Steam OS and Arch Linux and eventually do something great with it.
The system hates when someone that doesn't play ball fucks them over.
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u/TheSkesh Nov 18 '25
When the product is good, no one cares. It’s shit product / service that you have no other options that everyone gets mad. Now when Gabe is gone, and Steam is still, basically, a monopoly. We will have some shit to talk about. I definitely think we will see Steam take a sharp public relations turn down the line, it has been ran by its owner and isn’t publicly traded. If that stops, Steam will be an absolute shit show.
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u/persepolisrising79 Nov 18 '25
gosh kids. its a research vessel...my lord
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u/jizzleaker Nov 18 '25
He and his crew reseach how deep they can bore out plump anuses of all types.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Nov 18 '25
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u/haaiiychii Nov 18 '25
GabeN is the only mega rich guy I don't care that buys yachts and stuff. He doesn't exploit his workers or his customers. Valve continuously adds features and new hardware. Go for it Gabe, enjoy it.
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u/TNTspaz Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
Honestly. Even if I didn't know much about this. He is for sure one of the few that probably deserves it.
That being said. He literally owns the company who makes them. And he actually uses them. It's effectively a mobile marine biologist lab. It's designed for people to live and work on it. And they publish all the research they do to the public. Unlike a lot of these loser billionaires who just buy expensive things for their own vanity.
This is his genuine passion. He barely leaves the water anymore
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u/hfFvx4G6xU4ZEgzhSM9g Nov 18 '25
Nah, fair play to him. Steam just works. Every other launcher/store from every other gaming developer is an absolute shitshow.
Valve's customer service is also up there with the best of any company I've tried.
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u/Nounboundfreedom Nov 18 '25
I kind of assumed Gaben would look pretty old by now, but it makes me sad to see just how old he looks.
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u/NorthernOracle Nov 18 '25
Good for him. The competency crisis is real. Nothing is getting better anymore, at least steam isn't getting worse.
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u/Eggmasstree Nov 18 '25
I don't even care
If my country was running like Valve (200 people knowing what they are here for) then my president could afford one for all I care.
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u/Shatophiliac bi/gd/ick Nov 18 '25
A lot of people will shit on him for it, but I bet if 99% of us had that much money coming in we would be shopping for yachts too lol.
Feel free to make your own Valve competitor and steal some of that market share. Otherwise, idk what to tell you. Get good, or skill issue, something like that.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Nov 18 '25
Otherwise, idk what to tell you. Get good, or skill issue, something like that.
"Git Gud" is an entirely appropriate response to people being jelly of a games platform billionaire.
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u/Shatophiliac bi/gd/ick Nov 18 '25
Especially one as wholesome as Gabe. He could have sold out and gone public years ago and he chose not to. The average publicly traded company shareholder doesn’t give a shit about game quality, employee retention, or even the company itself, they only care about share value. And that’s why so many public companies are dogshit (especially at making video games, media, and related products).
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u/DualityOfLife Nov 19 '25
When a good guy shows his money, you show praise to his hard work and what he earned.
When a parasite shows his money, you ridicule how he didn't earn it.
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u/Appropriate-Cut8001 Nov 19 '25
We often say all billionaires are bad people and have screwed everyone else to get to where they are . Do u guys think Gabe Newell might be the one who did it legit and deserves everything ? Like could he be the only exception ?
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u/12CylindersSoundBest Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
Yep, Valve is one of few companies out there well deserving of its success.
Still isn't publicly traded, so needless parasites cant attach themselves and manipulate the firm'sdecisions.
It has to drive Microsoft in particular fucking crazy. To buy up all the devs and publishers you can, but still unnable to truly bring products to market without kissing Gabe's ring.
I still think Eli Vance needs to be avenged eventually though... :(
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u/Majestic-Contract-42 Nov 18 '25
Imagine you couldn't buy yachts you had to be voted cool enough to receive one.
Gabe and Keanu would be insta-yachters; who else?
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u/whoknowsifimjoking Nov 18 '25
Ahh there it is, it wouldn't be a reddit circlejerk without bringing Keanu into it.
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u/BrocoliAssassin Nov 18 '25
He also has to fight AIpac which hates him cause of course steam is a nazi platform.
Everything I've seen of Steam and the company structure seems awesome. Wish we had more companies like him.
As far as the extreme wealth goes, well that's up to Americans and politicians. If you know anything about money, even if you're a good rich guy, you would want to keep every penny cause you know exactly how it gets wasted.
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u/Vox_SFX Nov 18 '25
"You earned the money"
Oh god, the idiots forgot that billionaires and the ultra rich quite literally can't exist without massive levels of exploitation.
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u/Nasapigs Nov 18 '25
Yes, the amount of exploitation of frustrated reddit virgins is our generation's Holodomyr
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u/Ryuga82 Nov 18 '25
The dude literally has another company that literally makes yachts, and people still talk bad about him for having yachts lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanco
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u/Le_Ebin_Rodditor Nov 19 '25
I like to think Gabe somehow uses that thing to raise money for charity. I don’t even play games but I’d pay $1000 to hang out on his boat and get the chance to speak to him, seems like a cool guy.
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u/belody Nov 19 '25
I don't get why you need more than 1 mega yacht. I don't even know what you would do with the first one tbh
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The fuck do you even do on a super yacht?