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Not sure how this is at all exclusive to ""tech"".
by platinumrad 9y ago
Not sure how this is at all exclusive to ""tech"".
- gaius 9y agoBut the big tech names are the most egregious offenders: Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber... how does that mesh with a brand that claims to be about saving the world, community, yadda yadda?
- platinumrad 9y agoIs Uber really a more egregious offender than Exxon-Mobil? I am not at all defending large "tech" companies but to pretend that they are the first (or the worst) when it comes to dodging taxed is rather silly. Exploiting every last tax loophole possible is something common to all sufficiently wealthy individuals/corporations—even the queen herself is in on it.
- musage 9y ago> to pretend that they are the first (or the worst) when it comes to dodging taxed is rather silly. Who did? Name one actual instance where one actual person did claim they're the first to ever do that.
- platinumrad 9y agoSure, many more people think they're the worst than the first so maybe i should have swapped the order and the parentheses. However, the entire present conversation around "tech" is rooted in an implicit waryness of the novelty of the whole enterprise.
- chillydawg 9y agoBecause the biggest companies on the planet are tech now, mostly. They're all enormously profitable and pay a scandalously low rate of tax.
- TrickyRick 9y agoI feel like this has slipped many by. People consider Big Oil or Big Pharma the evil huge companies whereas tech is still the rebellious underdog changing the world.