The problem there is that getting him to pay would set an example. Billionaires can’t be seen to be coerced by the state into doing anything. That would show they are not untouchable, and would probably destroy the apathy from the general public which keeps them in power.

More specifically late-stage capitalism. This is a classic example of rent-seeking by a capitalist who has cornered a market.

The steam deck is just too ideal of a form factor to play stardew valley, isn’t it

I doubt they’ll be that stupid, however, all bets are off with the MBA’s back behind the wheel…

Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.