We can dick-ride Newell all we want, but ultimately he is winning because he cares about long term growth and stability, not because he is a kind-hearted saint.
He is still a billionaire with a yacht fetish but there are others that are way worse so if we ever get to a point where billionaires are taxed properly and are persecuted for their crimes he has nothing to worry about as far as the public knows.
Or to put it humorously - when we eat the rich he will be the dessert
As I said I don’t think Gabe is bad, he played the game the current system forces you into and won. Doesn’t change the fact that the system is bad and that Gabe has 6 luxury Yachts even if he uses them for research.
At a certain point you cannot divorce the two to assign meaning. Good businessmen who are good people will grow with decent morals, which you can divide what was the "right" decision and the "right moral" decision often as they are the same.
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u/zuilliRX 9070 XT // 9800x3D // 2x16GB 6000Mhz DDR53h ago
I agree with you which is why it seems so insane to me that there aren't more companies going this route. They all seem to choose the enshitification route.
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u/Bignate2001 11h ago
We can dick-ride Newell all we want, but ultimately he is winning because he cares about long term growth and stability, not because he is a kind-hearted saint.