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Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"

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    That's for every individual reading this to decide. It will either mean something or nothing to you.

    Personally, I don't think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. And I definitely don't think anyone needs 6 yachts in a world that is burning.

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    He earned his money. Who cares how many yatchs he decided to buy with it?

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    • shadow@lemmy.caS [email protected]

      Scuba diving is not an athletic sport. Air consumption is all about moving as little as possible once you're down there.

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      He also works out he said.

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      • I [email protected]

        Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

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        Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from

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        • shadow@lemmy.caS [email protected]

          Scuba diving is not an athletic sport. Air consumption is all about moving as little as possible once you're down there.

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          The most athletic part is if you're beach diving and have to swim out/back in from the shallows.

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          • I [email protected]

            Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

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            He's last on the list to be eaten though.

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              He earned his money. Who cares how many yatchs he decided to buy with it?

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              Yeah... earned...

              How do you do fellow temporarily embarrassed billionaire?

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              • I [email protected]

                Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

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                G*mers: "that's not going to stop me. I can't read"

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                • L [email protected]

                  Having known a number of CEOs over the years, they arent the ones waking up for those 3am calls unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.

                  They honestly shouldn't be the ones taking emergency calls either since most of the time they'll be in the way.

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                  Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.

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                    No offense to him, but he doesn't look like he scuba dives. Or works out...

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                    Better watch out for Japanese whaling vessels lol

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                    • I [email protected]

                      Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

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                      Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.

                      And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.

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                        He probably enjoys working. Lots of people like to feel like they're making things happen

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                        That includes some bad people too ... Well, I dunno how bad, just a certain Larry Ellison still loves working, or so I've heard. Or Bill Gates.

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                        • I [email protected]

                          That's for every individual reading this to decide. It will either mean something or nothing to you.

                          Personally, I don't think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. And I definitely don't think anyone needs 6 yachts in a world that is burning.

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                          Gabe shouldnt be able to have the money he has, but his yacht ownership isn't the issue many are making when pointing it out. One is his home, full time, any home he was going own was realistically going to suck for the environment. Last I read the others are all like research vessels, emergency medical facilities for disaster relief, and humanitarian aid, and shit. Not like a zuck's smaller yacht to act as a helipad for his larger yacht thing.

                          maybe some day we will have a system that prevents people from having that much money, until then any place with an active enough economy has some assholes owning yachts.

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                            He earned his money. Who cares how many yatchs he decided to buy with it?

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                            I do, that's why I said something.

                            And nobody has "earned" that much wealth. Absolutely no one.

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                              Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich

                              Wow.

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                              I don't take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.

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                                No offense to him, but he doesn't look like he scuba dives. Or works out...

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                                No offense to you, but you sound stupid and not very smart either.

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                                  So what?

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                                  Greedily taking up an obscene excess of resources and producing crazy amount of emissions and pollution makes the planet less livable for the rest of us. Yachts do those things.

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                                    He earned his money. Who cares how many yatchs he decided to buy with it?

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                                    He exploited gambling addictions and taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. Earned is a pretty strong word.

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                                    • I [email protected]

                                      That's for every individual reading this to decide. It will either mean something or nothing to you.

                                      Personally, I don't think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. And I definitely don't think anyone needs 6 yachts in a world that is burning.

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                                      Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things.

                                      Yeah, it's in the intersection of two "doubt" points making one "almost sure" point.

                                      First, people getting power get spoiled fast, it's not possible to resist, it's as if I could have any girl I like and she'd like me and I knew that, just no chance to avoid a sensory burnout after a few months of, eh, feeling that. The possibility that a person can resist that is very small, people like Aristotle Onassis, maybe.

                                      Second, if one person is worth, say, 12000 times more than another person, it's important to ask whether they really are, or they can be replaced with like 50 of equals of that another person with proper organization and discipline. The possibility that they really are is almost negligibly small, there are a few people alive for whom one can suggest that and maybe more, but most are like those people we know and love.

                                      I can imagine Gabe Newel being worth 100, maybe 1000 times me for the humanity, purely financially, but something of bigger orders of magnitude seems preposterous. Not even touching upon money affecting our relative legal power balance, where even factor 2 difference is just morally not acceptable.

                                      Not that I'm of any bad opinion of Gabe, Steam is one today's company that both doesn't abuse its customers too much and does a lot of work on the positive side.

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                                      • spaniard@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                                        Except he lives in a yatch and has his own gym, probably people that cook for him too.

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                                        yep i didn't say he was normal just that would he his equivalent to a normal person going to the gym

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                                        • I [email protected]

                                          I don't take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.

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                                          Why are you taking the worth for granted though?

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