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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 128 points 8 months ago (20 children)

There’s a lot of money to be made as a middleman.

If there’s a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling shovels.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 72 points 8 months ago (7 children)

For a real comparison steam is the distributor, storefront, advertiser, and support. A bit more than just 'a middleman'.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If there's a gold rush, you want to run the railroads, build the houses, sell the shovels and open the general store I guess

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 16 points 8 months ago

Fortunately, that's illegal now. If only those laws would be applied to modern things

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