It would benefit society because we could all spend our outrage on things more productive than pushing on a rope. The profits were taxed as VAT or something on

It would benefit society because we could all spend our outrage on things more productive than pushing on a rope. The profits were taxed as VAT or something on the way into Apple. They will be taxed again as income tax or something on their way out again. We are free to adjust these rates as we wish. But trying to tax intermediate steps which seem to be largely accounting fictions (like exactly which puzzle piece of the global empire actually made that profit) seems like a fool's errand.