Shut up commie. It's a private company, has nothing to do with capitalism, and is in no way classifiable as a "megacorporation". This isn't Microsoft or Amazon. Delusional to think Gaben hasn't thought of what happens after he dies and hasn't set up plenty of safeguards.
Also steam launched 20 years ago. It became 'big' in 2008. Every other platform has had more than 5 years to actually get going. Shocker they haven't done it less time, since the blueprint was literally invented by Steam who had to experiment and create the fucking medium in the early days of the internet.
Dogshit take to say Steam monopoly while actively praising platform exclusivity. Sorry we like the option to use our personal favorite digital platform where our entire library is unified and not the safety helmet wearing little cousin where we're supporting Tim Sweeney.
There's a reason Steam outclasses every other platform and it's far from being a greedy monopoly. They uh, get close for this one, make a better product. Uplay, Origin, EGL, they all fucking suck in comparison of features and usability. Valve literally just gives a shit about the consumer first.
This topic just sincerely pisses me off when people with the understanding of guns is equal to that of a toddler begin speaking. If you want to make something your enemy, at LEAST understand it.
Question to those who are cringe here, would these not be Wehrmacht conscripts, unlikely to be politically aligned to the National Socialists. It's 1942, and presumably front line troops, during Germany's backfoot of November to December.
The bulk of volunteers was from 36-39, but Germany forced conscripts till the end of the war sooooooo. Act like a fucking human being and respect the dead.
But you're not going with the heckin narrativerino!!!!! Nvm Switzerland actively encourages gun ownership, or Czechia has the same constitutional right to bear arms we do (to fight off invaders like the soviets and nazis due to historical events, hm sounds familiar) or Norway still allowing gun ownership after taking tests and showing competency!!!!
The heckin narrativerino!!!!!!!!! All social democrat nations have banned guns!!!! The UK is a nation we should be mimicking!!!!
Fuck these losers, make citizens lives better. Remember they can't take your rights if they have to take your life first.
Because the jedi aren't the good guys. I've said it for years they're designed as the righteous side of the same coin of the Sith. Always rambling about balance and such then willingly submitting as the lapdog police force of the bloated and corrupt Republic, only taking action when their masters need a war. It's thousands of years of moral objectivity gone wrong through the eyes of dogma fanatics who've lost their way.
Even Luke's revival (fuck off Disney) is bound to fail.
I can see your point, but I am also tired of pointing to CEO salaries and thinking that reducing them will make any meaningful increase on company wide salaries.
There's always making cost scalable to reported profit. It's annoying to see a company like Amazon make so much but pay employees so little because it's"competitive pay" to the business they're ruining through monopoly.
It's better to place the burden on the company as a whole per revenue than per CEO pay differential. Amazon for example made somewhere in the 500 billion dollars in revenue for 2022 but for all ~1.5m employees only spent ~42 billion on salaries for an average of ~28k a year.
They have so much ample revenue to use for increased salaries that goes unanswered.
Government allows infinite lending to stupid unexperienced children, children tell colleges their tuition is on the house, colleges raise tuition costs knowing their premium is secured by either wealthy families or the infinite pockets of the government, students keep being told the lie college is the only outlet to a better life, keep taking more loans. Rinse and repeat.
So many soft losers in this thread who think the epitome of life is wasting away at a desk all day looking at code and coping with the lifelong debt they took to experience it. Unironically some moron who thinks that you can only gain critical thinking from going to a uni, completely ignoring children who show the predisposition for higher intelligence among their peers. You can't teach intelligence. Stockholm syndrome cope fr.
Dumbass acts like he's never met the kids who go to college without learning a fuckin thing because they simply aren't intelligent people.
This isn't a universal experience that you just magically absorb a new profound understanding of the world by stepping over the threshold of the classroom door. All those liberal arts majors sure are critical thinkers bro.
My god, remove your personal bias and actually read the shit you say disconnected then tell me you aren't elitist as fuck. I'm done with this bad faith and menial retardation blinded by your own worldview. Scum.
That's just insanely retarded to say and why it's elitist to think you can only learn this from a college/uni. I guess literally every successful dropout never learned critical thinking, or self taught, or naturally skeptic, or literally any fucking human in the past where further education wasn't as readily accessible to the general population but still became renowned philosophers and inventors. "Sorry kids unless you spend borrowed money to indebt yourself for life you'll always be stupid unlike me" L
It's a predisposition to intelligence not that you had to pay for a glorified tutor. Shut the fuck up lmao.
Yeah this isn't Spotify's fault really. It's a cringe over prostitution of the industry with increased server cost, record studios asking more in premiums, and growing pains from increased salaries. It's unfortunate we can't ever just let something exist for the sake of general good without the greedy asking for their take when it becomes popular.
This is elitist trash mentality my guy. It's not that serious and you can gain life skills from anywhere. Happy you found it through the medium of uni, but lmao.
You can find literally any industrial town desperate for workers and offering at least 20 an hour for labor jobs.