we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

The royal 'we' feels like it applies here too. They probably had a thousand people telling them exactly why Steam was as popular as it is but the Very Smart Money People almost certainly refused to listen.

Dude straight-up says 'We had more money so we thought we'd win automatically'.

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

Just a guess but people are more comfortable spending money when they know they'll get more of it.

Cryptolibertidiots blowing blood vessels in their eyes discovering the infinite money hack is just socialism