From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named “The International”… Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?
From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named “The International”… Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?
That’s not anarchy, that’s libertarianism. And to answer your question, at least going on People Make Games’s investigation of Valve’s culture, he does seem to be very libertarian.
At the very least, it may be a sincere libertarianism, as opposed to the usual authoritarianism in liberal clothing. Take a sincere libertarian, add Georgist land theory to their economic mix, and they’ll veer left over time as it works its way through their worldview. Or at least, that’s what happened to me.