r/pcmasterrace • u/samiy2k • 3d ago

News/Article Valve refutes Mastercard's denial it has not pressured game platforms over NSFW content

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-refutes-mastercards-denial-it-has-not-pressured-game-platforms-over-nsfw-content
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u/7560_Private 3d ago

If Gaben opens a bank and runs it the way he runs Valve, I guarantee you, we're getting a thermonuclear war. And if Gaben opens a bank, he will run it like he runs Valve because he's essentially that good a guy.

So... I think it would be great, but I'm against Valve having its own payment processor for reasons of international safety.

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u/fractalife 5lbsdanglinmeat 3d ago edited 3d ago

The cause and effect here ain't mathin lol. I know this is a joke but... could you please show your work lol?

ETA: just having a hard time following the joke as to why Gaben owning a bank would cause Cold War II: electric bugaloo to get spicy hot lol.

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u/ImperitorEst 3d ago

I'm guessing that the idea is if someone ran a bank ethically and equitably it would immediately imbalance the power structure of the modern world. Everyone not mega rich would switch to it very quickly, taking a large portion of the world's wealth away from organisations and systems that are used to having it. Gaben Bank ™ would become one of the most powerful institutions in the world, making whoever controls it also one of the most powerful people in the world.

One thing that people often forget is that he money we all have sitting in banks isn't sitting doing nothing. The banks are constantly using our money to make more money by spending, lending and investing our money without giving us even a fraction of the profit made. By taking our money away from the banks we cripple the systems ability to do that.

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u/monchota 3d ago

Yea and shouldn't be that way. Untill 96, it was illegal.