Valve is also a privately owned company. They don't need to make more money this quarter vs last quarter to keep shareholders happy, they can just be happy that they're making a lot of money. That requirement to always become more profitable than before leads companies to enshitify products with anti-consumer "features" and cut costs (ie layoffs).
GalacticSushi
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The kind that watches right wing propaganda 24/7 and is convinced that if billionaires can just make it to trillionaire status and we stop spending a few million on starving kids, we'll unlock some fanciful utopia of everyone being rich by virtue of working hard.
Keep in mind, Nixon had a 24% approval before resigning, this was before Fox news was even created to run propaganda for conservatives. Even without fox, roughly a quarter of the country will just never change their mind.
It's free, but I might start including ads in my hallucinations soon
Are you saying money didn't exist until 1776?
You don't need to have prime to buy stuff on Amazon.
It's the old "media shows you an objectively attractive character then attempts to gaslight you into thinking they're some kind of rotten gremlinesque undesirable" trope.
there's no "Ok to be straight event"
That's just everyday society
Here in America, we are absolutely free to live our lives exactly the way conservatives want us to. Unless of course you're not white, in which case your right to exist is always a little up in the air.
I think the millions of slaves in America would disagree when the British empire outlawed slavery 30 years earlier without having a civil war over the issue.
So ice cream or maybe something more cake-like?