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Just as a sidenote here, the "issue" with steam is that it doesn't have any real competition. Steam just does everything better than any other game launcher and that's probably in part because of their policy.
On the gamedev side they allow you to market to a huge audience as a small creator and give you a chance to make it big (think Balatro, Signal 1, and a lot of other indie games as of recent)
On the gamer side they've made buying, updating and doing anything around the games so much easier than it used to be and not a single launcher has been able to do it as good as them. They've released one of the best VR headsets on the market that still hasn't been beaten years later. They've released the first good Linux based PC handheld both giving a huge boost to that market and improving proton so gaming on Linux is actually possible (outside of games with anti-cheats that don't allow linux)
I'm not saying them taking 30% from almost any sale done on steam is good, but at least they are able to give a service for it that not a single other company has done, they're probably the most pro gamer company in the industry right now (together with game studios like Larian)
Also, yes devs should be paid a lot more for their work and the average person should also have a higher salary to beat inflation cause life is just too damn expensive!
Competition or not, the guy at the top still decided that being a multi billionaire was more important than the quality of life of his clients or the world poorest. No one forces anyone to own a yacht collection. No one forces anyone to be a billionaire. At any point he could have decided to stop accumulating wealth and to give away what he would otherwise gain to charities.
Remember when Musk said if he could fix world hunger for $6B he would do it and then he didn't? ALL billionaires are guilty of the same thing.
Edit: keep downvoting guys, I'm sure Gaben will be glad you defended him