That may be the case but it is frustrating that companies can hide behind the bad actions of those working on their behalf or are an independent subsidiary that a normal person can't distinguish between.
Valve's stance can be determined by their action or inaction on this.
What about baseball? The pitcher and catcher's goal is throw the ball back and forth 18 times. Everyone else is just there incase they can't manage that.
Depending on your current situation the base XFL salary of $59k might look pretty good. You're not going to get rich off that but lots of people survive off a lot less.
Don't forget that Black Friday only SKUs are a thing. They take an existing product and make one that is cosmetically the same but make the insides worse. They then pass that off as the original and mark it as on sale.
Im concerned about two things when considering your argument.
The US has been doing everything in its power to piss everyone else off lately.
Fighting a war in Taiwan or Japan is going to be a lot harder for the US than it will be for China. Taiwan is 100 miles from China but 6800 miles from California.
Same here. There is a learning curve because, while it does all the same things, sometimes it happens in a slightly different way and the UX is different.
Where is it written that we can only have one floating plastic island?