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Value is now only _extracted_. Place the acquired good into the press and smash it until all but the faintest essence remains among the mash. The squeezings a
by dwoldrich 1mo ago
Value is now only _extracted_. Place the acquired good into the press and smash it until all but the faintest essence remains among the mash. The squeezings are bottled and saved to pay for future _extractions_.
Companies like Valve can continue largely unshittificated because they are private. Once that is no longer the case, all our game rentals will be squozen away from us.
- nazgulsenpai 1mo agoTIL squozen is the past participle of squeeze, but only because I first thought hah this guy is making words up. Foiled again!
- qwertfisch 1mo agoIt is not, it is "squeezed". This is not an irregular verb.
- KineticLensman 1mo agoI looked 'squeeze' up in the (paywalled) Oxford English Dictionary [0]. The are numerous variant forms including 'squoze' and 'squozen': "Also 1600s squeez, squeaze, squease, squese, 1600s–1700s squeese. Also with dialect preterite and past participle 1800s– squoze, past participle 1800s squozen." The OED cites quotations from the 1930s, 1870s, and 1860s that include 'squoze' and 'squozen', for example ‘Orange?’ repeated Waitress No. 1. ‘Do you want it squoze?’ in the Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep 1931. [0] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/squeeze_v?tab=forms#21076314 https://www.oed.com/dictionary/squeeze_v?tab=forms#21076314
- shaftoe444 1mo ago> It's stressful having me head squoze
- ThrowawayR2 1mo agoGabe Newell has an $11bn net worth so he hasn't exactly been not squeezing.
- N_Lens 1mo agoI think his company has created far more value and goodwill than his networth indicates. True juicers like Bezos and Musk are different.
- mrgoldenbrown 1mo agoI think Gabe is an example of how you can stop at absurdly rich and still make your customers happy. The enshittification is only necessary to go beyond absurdly rich.
- ThrowawayR2 1mo agoHe's somewhere in the top 300 wealthiest people in the world; forget one-percenter, that's something like top 0.00001%. He definitely has done a lot of nice things for gaming and I hope he continues to do so for the rest of his days but let's not pretend he's not beyond absurdly rich.
- N_Lens 1mo agoI think there’s two separate things here that you seem to be conflating - absurdly rich and unethical. I’d argue Newell is mostly the former; though many or most billionaires align on both those metrics.
- ahartmetz 1mo agoHe could have gotten $5bn ten years ago (for great justic... quarterly results) and then have his lunch eaten by Epic and GOG. He clearly doesn't understand how to do current year capitalism.
- Cthulhu_ 1mo agoDoes he even have his own cryptocurrency? (don't answer that, it does exist because people make shitcoins for everything: https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/4CF8Ek5DEiYtP1YuqomDdhkeScoExu4UTdFX9BB9pump https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/4CF8Ek5DEiYtP1YuqomDdhkeSc...)
- cineticdaffodil 1mo ago[dead]