How do users who give gifts afford them?

I'm a successful student, I have lots of scholarship payments. I also take government credit for students which I'll pay when I graduate. I also invest my money on lots of things, mostly selling steam keys from one website to another.

JK, I'm a gigolo.

i give away bundled mostly, sometimes i give away some older games i still had in my inventory...

meth

I'm a bit older than the average user here. Got my own business, and while my profits (after tax income) were actually slightly less than the average wage in my country this past year, my country itself is relatively wealthy. I don't have a mortgage or pay any rent on either my home or business premises as it's all fully paid for. I put little time into my business which mostly runs itself and that affords me a lot of free time so even then I'll spend some of it hunting around for bargains and discounts so that I can make giveaways. That's the long and short of it.

I obviously steal all of my money.

I scam other users and then regift stolen games. Easy!

im a professional thief

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Oh crap, I'm supposed to pay money for the games? deletes account

Hard earned money.

Happy gifting -> Happy people. We both feel good -> Profit.

Through the power of copy/paste money!

Prostitution.

... Just me?

I have a job and I'm happy that I can buy bundle games just for giveaways.
Giving feels good :)

I do some freelance with a couple of my friends, what they pay me usually goes towards making giveaways.

I don't know. You should ask a famous student. Though he is only a casual gifter.

As you said, "If I want to cash out some money to strangers, I prefer giving it to charity to provide food/water for the poor or world causes, which I do very frequently", so keep doing it. I am giving away gifts only when I have a surplus of money on steam. But I like giving to the poor sometimes too. :D A lot of steamgifts users mostly give away bundle games, so the value is much lower.

I use the leftover cash from my drugs and prostitution empire.

I have a job, I buy bundles and wait for discount. Also, I'm still living with my mom and she refuses that I share bills or groceries with her.

I chose "Other", because "Secret" wasn't an option Dx

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Alright income, low expenses. I'm by no means rich, but I have fewer expenses than I had when I was a full time student, and I'm working.
It's nice to make someone else happy.

I'm making money with betting on csgo matches -> selling won skins-> buy keys or gifts.
I also get some free keys for reviewing or promotional purposes.
And bundles ofcourse.
I think I spent about 750$ real money since I joined.

For those who say in Italy we live well and are rich.
For sure, if you have money, Italy is one of the best place to live. But.
In Italy salaries may seem high (about net 1500€/month), but I can assure they are not. If you're a normal employee, worker or waiter/ress, your average salary is about net 1000-1200€ for a full time job. With that, you need to pay the rent (500€ minimum for a flat), 200€ for the car payment, 100€ for fuel to get to work (fuel in Italy costs a whole lot) if you're not lucky enough to work near your house, about 100€/person to eat at home, bills for water, power, gas, telephone and internet. So you see that, if you live alone, you can barely cover these expenses. If there is any unexpected thing (a car accident, a broken tooth, a fine, a tax, really anything), you simply don't have the money. And 1000€ is far more than the minimum wage.
After that, there is an uneven disparity between public and private jobs. Most statal employees work few and receive an above-average salary, they are soooo many of them but the services suck. And you, private worker, need to pay more than half of your salary to pay taxes and obligatory previdence, to pay pension to people who retired (from public jobs only) when they were 35-45 years old, instead of normal 60-65.
If you need a specialistic visit or exam, you need to wait for a 6-12 months queue in public hospitals, so you need to go to private doctors/clinics (and pay with your own money usually after paying taxes).
If you need a document, you have to take a day away from job to bounce from office to office hoping someone gets you the document you need, only to later see it was wrongly compiled.
Taxes on commercial activities can get up to (and over) 70% of the earning, so little firms fail after a couple of years (no enterprises = no jobs) Juvenile disoccupation is close to 50%, the lucky ones who get a job usually eart about 500€/month and rarely get definitively hired again when the contract ends.
There are taxes everywhere: house, car, hospital exams, savings... anything you can think about - it has a tax on it.
Prices are very high and the Euro is a far too strong money for our economy, foreign (European) wares costs 20-30% less than Italian wares, so our firms don't sell much in Italy.
And many other things.

For the main topic, I think those who give many games away, they can generally be: developers, very generous wealthy people, people with good jobs, people with good youtube/twitch channels (who earn from ads, receive copies from developers for reviews or donations from followers), people who run raffle groups on steam, and so on. For a normal person with an average job and a family, it's very hard to save enough to buy good, non-bundled games worth hundreds of dollars to give away every month. Honestly, if I had a job, I would struggle to save and get the expensive games I want, before giving some away to the community - that thing comes later.

Hard earned money, just wish gifts were tax deductible, like charities :P

They...get money from somewhere? Having a job isn't the only option though. Also, anyone can afford games if they eat less. Anyone can afford to give games if that's what they care about the most.

Male prostitution coupled with a niche japanese eel porn market.