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$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In 2022 the median household income in the USA was $74 580, that means 50% of households had less than $74 580 in income.

A person that has at least a billion in wealth (like Gabe Newell) owns at least the equivalent of 13 409 times the median income.

I would love to illustrate it by copy pasting $74580 13409 times, but it creates a comment too long Lemmy.

If we go by net worth instead?

https://www.fool.com/research/average-net-worth-americans/

5190 US medians, 25 615 US medians for people under 35 (the crowd on this platform).

No one deserves that kind of wealth and anything that's done to prevent it is a good thing.

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

Your point is valid but this kind of lawsuit isn't really the way to go about the change you're describing

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Suing them because they're making too much profit isn't the way to go to make it so they're prevented from making too much profit in the future.........

Eh.......

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

yes you're right this is a lawsuit about too much profit and it will directly set a precedent where companies aren't allowed to have too much profit.

Pretty smart, as a leftist maybe I'll sue every corporation for being privately owned, this is a whole new avenue for systemic change. You opened my eyes

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I saw some stats the other day that if you remove the top 1000 incomes in the united states the average drops to around 35k. So that average of 75k is bullshit.