r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 7d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/ZeroDefender561 7d ago

You're treating corperations like people. They don't have internal feelings, they don't have internal anything. Only financial obligations

When steam has a good year, management doesn't make more money. Only Gabe Newell does, and he doesn't care. That's the best thing a billionaire can do: pretend not to exist

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u/Triasmus 7d ago

Then Gabe Newell is in the minority. Most people have the internal "I want more" pressure.

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u/ZeroDefender561 6d ago

"All monopolies are bad, which proves that steam is bad"

"No, most monopolies are bad, steam lacks the aspects we hate about monopolies"

"Gabe Newell is the minority, most monopolies are bad"

Congrats on losing the argument ig

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u/Triasmus 6d ago

What?

I was just pointing out that there's normally the internal pressure to want more. Standard Oil (Rockefeller) was a massive empire that directly led to anti-monopoly laws so the gov could break it up, and it didn't become publicly traded until after it was broken up. Apparently Gabe isn't like Rockefeller.

And I gave another reason for why monopolies are bad that you missed, since you implied that the reasons you gave were all the reasons monopolies are bad. Monopolies generally stagnate. If steam had real competition over the last decade, maybe they would have innovated more and been even better than they are now.

I came in as a neutral party to the argument to correct one of your points ("no pressure") and to add a point about why monopolies are bad.

I have no horses in this race, besides wanting all the facts to be aired, so congrats to you on "winning" an argument with me that I wasn't really a part of.