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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This CEO, Gabe Newell, and (if he was still alive) the founder of Little Caesars, who, if I recall correctly, secretly paid for Rosa Parks apartment until her death.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Gabe Newell owns fleets of yachts and private jets. The man is using your sweet gaming money to burn the planet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah we need a source.

Also, as far as CEO's go, speaking from an outside perspective obviously, the man is wonderful. Valve makes solid business decisions in favor of long term growth instead of short term profits. They do this buy making sure that their platform is easy, safe, reliable, and not abusive for their consumers. They institute their own consumer protections into the platform that make them less money, just to make sure they remain a place we WANT to shop, when everyone else tries to make themselves the only place to shop, and then fucking over their consumers at every opportunity. Valve is a fucking case study on how companies should be ran, and a perfect display of how modern american capitalism is ruining everything, by being the antithesis of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe he's just buying up all the yachts and private jets so no one else can have them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He was going to have them laser-scanned for a Half-Life 3 level, but nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but daddy gaben let's me play my games 😩 so it's okay

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago

The founder of Little Caesars was a typical magnate developer who bought up much of downtown Detroit and let it rot until he received tax incentives to build, and kicked out many low income residents from apartments he let sit until they got city money. His family continues this tradition. The Rosa Parks thing is the only good thing I've ever heard of that man and his family do.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Add Steve Wozniak to the list of the ones to be protected. The Woz has done more to pull people up and we should all aspire to that level if we ever have the means.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Woz isn't a CEO and was stabbed in the back so many times he makes the Ten of Swords look like a sign for future friendships

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

He's been on multiple board of directors and founded several orgs. While not a CEO, he's certainly in the same sphere and must be protected.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Woz is the true Tech Jesus

No that would be Stallman. In so many ways, but most importantly by establishing the concept of free software and pushing hard for progressive values. Also by being unpopular with the masses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You mean GNU/Stallman

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

in terms of being betreayed? sure.

In terms of being the salvation and the light? Nah, that's Linus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Linus is the drunken uncle of the tech backbone, let's be real here. Woz is the supportive one after being in abusive relationship after abusive relationship.

After every instance of getting relatively screwed over (he still made bank, just not as much) he still founded and ran groups that focussed on pushing the envelope of tech or improving less advantaged youth into stem fields

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Linus is the drunken uncle of the tech backbone, let’s be real here. Woz is the supportive one after being in abusive relationship after abusive relationship.

Woz is Bill Dautrive, Linus is Rusty Shackleford :P