Gabe Newell is only 62 years old at the moment and doesn't need money so his influence is his own. But one day, like it is for everyone, he'll not be with us and so who will make sure that Steam and Valve stay on a steady course and don't bend to whims like every sodomised fucker in every other field of influence has done throughout time?
Trusts can tie things together and that will outlive us all but, as The Guardian has so bravely shown, trust funds can be pirated and fall into hands who were never once thought of as capable of sailing them.
Only history can tell but when you look at legacies like Carnegie's you can see the wrong people get in control using nefarious reasons and try to start a revolution with tools they could never have conceived of on their best days.
That's an interesting thread all of its own.
Gabe Newell is only 62 years old at the moment and doesn't need money so his influence is his own. But one day, like it is for everyone, he'll not be with us and so who will make sure that Steam and Valve stay on a steady course and don't bend to whims like every sodomised fucker in every other field of influence has done throughout time?
Trusts can tie things together and that will outlive us all but, as The Guardian has so bravely shown, trust funds can be pirated and fall into hands who were never once thought of as capable of sailing them.
Only history can tell but when you look at legacies like Carnegie's you can see the wrong people get in control using nefarious reasons and try to start a revolution with tools they could never have conceived of on their best days.