• lemongarlic@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Valve is a good company in that they make an enormous amount of money running steam and they use that money to fund generally positive things. That’s about as good as you can hope tbh

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      13 hours ago

      That’s pretty much definition of textbook capitalism: they benefit from doing something that benefits others too.

      Too bad this is a rare case in the real world capitalism

      • lemongarlic@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        It’s more common than you think, like Apple has done a great job integrating privacy and security features into their OS both because they don’t really stand to gain from user data collection the same way Google does, its a good selling point, it helps them protect their app store revenue streams etc. nd also because they actually care about it.

        OTOH they are agreesively anti right to repair