it’s so small that completely eradicating them would do exactly nothing to combat climate change
That's not true, did you read any of the link posted?
We live in a society made of billions of individuals, we are not ants or robots, everyone is supposed to do is part. Billionare part count as much as millions of people, that's how big their footprint it.
The yachts they buy, sit in dry dock 99% of their lives. You bitching about it is pure ignorance.
In the articles is it explained how they don't spend 99% of their live there and how they are polluting even when they are docked, they also get to show you how much of a problem that "1%" cause
You bitching about it is pure ignorance.
I really hope you are rich yourself and own a bunch of boats because otherwise you defending a billionare is as miserable as one can get.
Ok then what’s stopping people from doing that?
Nobody. Valve spend millions on advertising to remain popular and outshadow competitors. As a result there are many brainwashed fools who go around defending the company like you can see in this thread
Luckily your computer can run any software you want so there's no need to build any platform to play videogames.
I was reply to your concern of people not being able to find their games, the fediverse is an example of how you can build a non centralized network and still bring people together.
Mega yachts fall into the personal transportation problem. If everyone would go around in a mega yacht we would be long time extinct.
If a single person throw the garbage out of the window it isn't going to cause much of pollution so why don't you just throw trash out?
As the ceo of a company with millions of clients many of which are kids you are entitled more than everyone else to show the good example.
What you are saying is simply wrong anyway, mega yachts and billionares are indeed a big cause of pollution.
You are on lemmy, a open source and decentralized platform where thousand of different instances federate with each others...
So we’re at a point that,
We are at a point where if we don't reduce emissions humanity is doomed. A fleet of private mega yachts is a smack in the face to everyone trying to change for good and so is a smack spending billions on "toys" when the average person is struggling to pay rent.
You seem to have lost track of the plot and of reality, look around yourself there's a disaster or a tragedy happening every single day.
Ah, yes, capitalism. Because they don’t have to pay to maintain servers and infrastructure or anything, right?
They are stacking billions. It means they are paying peanuts compared to what they are making.
valve and gabe isn’t one of them.
A guy who owns a billion dollar worth fleet of mega yachts in 2024 (climate crisis and everyone getting poorer) sounds quite the villain to me.
Tons of indie devs have made it via steam.
And even more didn't make it. Steam being so big and the market spinning around it actually works against promoting smaller games because there's just as much you can see on steam shelf.
I'm not bothering watching all the video. I hope they highlight that a good part of the company clients are kids.
Why are you wasting your time defending billionares who are screwing the planet and everyone over? Are you getting paid or are you playing the devil advocate?
There are 800 billionares in USA alone and more than 3000 around the globe. My country italy has about 60 million people and spend 130B on public health each year. The 5.7T you mentioned would be enough to cover the healthcare spending that covers 60M people for 40 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban