It is my experience that people who have little tend to appreciate what they do have while those who have more complain about not having even more. It doesn’t matter what “IT” is, the monkey part of our brain always wants even more of it. When that doesn’t happen, the tendency is to focus on others as being the cause of not getting what they perceive to be deserved, hence complaining.

The internet has been around, as you understand it now, since the late 1990s. 1995 - 1996 is earliest analog to what we have now.

They may not be for everyone but they help many.

They are some rare cases where someone becomes a billionaire because something suddenly took off.

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There are some very rare exceptions where someone just happened to make the best thing out there at the time. Minecraft is a good example. Those people move on and live their lives rather than exploit.

I can’t really get my head around why people dislike Gabe Newell. As best I can tell, he’s been a fantastic steward for Steam.

Look at all these people downvoting you for living your life.