Every time I see a post with this specific claim, targeted at Valve, i just can’t help but laugh.

Yes. They take a cut.

Yes. Everyone else takes the same cut, so you’re biased, if you don’t understand this.

Yes. They are an undisputed leader in the market, but no, that’s not called a monopoly.

The difference is that Valve, while taking this cut, and being as big as they are, are consistently investing that money into improvement of the platform, AND also paying people to directly contribute to OSS, that affects everyone else in the market too.

This isn’t even a bogus claim, but just a waste of everyone’s time

And paying yachts for Gaben, you forgot to mention the money also goes to doing that.

Get that in your head people, if someone can sell you stuff and it makes them a billionaire then you got overcharged, you can find all kinds of excuses to defend them, they’re still making more a day in interests with 1 billion invested than the median income over four years.

What he does with his money is none of my concern. Unlike the vast majority of other CEOs in his market cap tier, he’s actually paid fairly, compared to an average worker at Valve

He’s

A

Billionaire

No, he’s not paid fairly, no one should have that kind of wealth.

I highly doubt that most people, given the opportunity, would not live like a billionaire. If someone builds a company like Valve, they’re going to live very well. That doesn’t say as much about the person as it does about the economic system.