I wasn’t thinking that having more companies would make capitalism better or anything, I was just entertaining the thought of Valve being less of a ghoulish company than others. Like others said: Valve does some pretty cool things, but at the same time promotes lootboxes in counter strike and such.

Also you’re completely right in the China part. I used companies like Huawei as something akin to, albeit a bit different to Valve and the like. It’s not to be taken too seriously, my apologies.

Thank you for taking the time to write a reply, comrade.

This. Billionaires are weaker when isolated

I know! That’s why I said it’s not a completely clear comparison.

You’re in all posts yogthos lol you’re a blessing to lemmygrad

It’s always funny to me when people argue for monopolies. The healthiest (capitalist) economies are the ones with the most regulation against them, but when convenience outweighs price and quality, it’s just “nice” to people lol

A nice parallel would be Netflix killing major internet piracy. I still got my free stuff, it’s just that most people didn’t anymore. Ironically piracy is making a comeback now due to convenience not being the focus anymore, with all the different streaming services.

I do not have much to add to your great arguments, comrade. Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to reply. Cheers from Brazil!

That’s what I think as well. I don’t think GabeN is a leftist or anything, and even if he was he’d still be a capitalist (like you said: pricing, salaries etc). Valve makes some cool things like Proton and some other open source projects, but in the end it’s for profit yada yada we all know capitalism.

I still think there’s much to improve even with private corporate structures, but for that we’d need a revolution, armed struggle, etc to make such improvements mandatory and such like China and Vietnam do. I might just be too optimistic though.

Thank you for your time, comrade.

based and Brasil-pilled

thanks for sharing this! I’m Brazilian and didn’t see this

late reply sorry

he spoke portuguese to me lol, he said he spoke mandarin and was chinese

yeah, I tried it and he was not very friendly. he was nice, don’t get me wrong, but he obviously was just trying to do his job and not talk much

overall it was nice though, he spoke mandarin!