Yeah valve has been one of the few companies that has been fairly balanced and steady.
They also have made a lot of contributions towards gaming, including on linux which are reflected within general improvements so games and other 3D applications can run properly/more efficiently.
They have done more than a LOT of other companies just not fucking people over hardcore and putting in SOME effort to improve the ecosystem without it being something directly monetizable and/or low effort.
Many companies literally fail these simple tasks, they don’t contribute unless its directly profitable and its always bare minimum bottom line focused effort often screwing over consumers giving them things they dont want and restricting things they want because “that could impact maximum profitability”, etc while packing every single thing full of data collection to maximize revenue to the point people HATE them and just don’t have any other options due to the fact most monolithic companies essentially have monopolistic control over what they are associated with either solely or virtually with other companies who work with them to maintain profit “standards”
Valvle most instead just does what they are supposed to do and tries to make it better where they can.
Per the employee count they are also more profitable than amazon, Microsoft, etc if i remember correctly. Because people like when things are fairly straightforward and do what they are supposed to do…..
So much of the modern communist vision is just "reality is bad, I want to be a baby forever!! "
The Leftists NEVER act on their beliefs and form communes - because that means working even harder than outside of them.
I posted before about a large indian commune. You have to work, even if disabled.
Leftists would shrivel and die in a week.
If you substitute the word "reality" for "capitalism", and "delusion" for "communism", their sentences make sense.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani conceded he won’t be able to deliver his promise of free buses this year — making a U-turn on one of the cornerstones o
I don't really see the difference between the communist leaders and that of any cult. They promise everything but deliver only doom.
The result is always the same.
Jonestown, location of the mass murder-suicide of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid l
Then, unless propped up externally, the communist economy is abandoned and you are left with the worst of everything - a nation of slaves and slavers alike, desperate for money and power because that is the only way to escape the enshittiffication of their lives.
If you are not rich in china, your life is miserable. Even the relatively well off swindle each other and everyone else constantly, because they need more and more money to escape the degradation of infrastructure etc.
And, I noticed, a lot of the powerful communists still try to live outside of China, because while they might say it is superior, they know that the free market means free speech means buildings that don't fall down while the police arrest anyone who points it out.
The West is heading that way. Starmerism means people are arrested for making fun of the government, or for pointing out that the "doctors and engineers" seem to be beheading unbelievers while the police act as their bodyguards.
But the Chinese still buy property outside of China, in an enormous way. China could collapse altogether, like the Soviet Union did, and they know it. They want wealth and power in the West or Africa, far away from the very communist system they export.
Even communists, the smart ones, hate communism. But they are so soiled by it that they drag everyone else down into that Hell.
Even china is technically capitalist with socialist/communist policies, pure communism for its own sake never works, mao showcased that and lead to the capitalist reform of China basically. Its literally the only way they can make the communist side of things functional is keep shovelling money towards it.
Plus like, while policies ACTUALLY focusing on the people would be the best way to build a strong nation and flourishing economy, its done by empowering individualism and individual success in a decentralized way so we all move forward through a strong foundation.
communism and socialism is collectivist nonsense that empowers government, centralized authority and breeds dictatorships, totalitarianism, regimes, etc. it was designed to do just that, remember the purpose of the system is what it does not what it claims to do. Just like anything the 1% tries to sell, they market the worst things telling you it does the opposite of what it actually does.
pro tip you can just grab a bunch of random parts from dumpsters and hardware stores and computer stores and just attach them together haphazardly and then put it in your suitcase and take it to the airport and get arrested pretty much 100% of the time
It actually kinda pisses me off that every time there’s an adaptation of some classic work coming out, there are takes like “maybe we should not judge the adaptation compared to the original”… I think if the creator doesn’t want their work to be compared and judged on comparison, they can make literally any other type of piece. I’m not arguing for a word for word adaptation - I think those are impossible, first of all, and just not fun to strive for. But slapping a recognisable title, names and plots into your work, and then turning around and asking people not to compare your work to the original is simply absurd lol
a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered
And people probably can't imagine the scale of insect life anyways. Everyone dies if the worms disappear. Pollinators are essential to a ton of plants we'd all miss very badly. Ants outnumber everything everywhere. And you'd really, really notice if gross stuff had to rot completely to go away instead of being eaten by bugs.
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