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>>People will need to realize that they will need to be welcoming to either everyone or noone, everything else is just bigotry If an individual or company viol
by glup 8y ago
>>People will need to realize that they will need to be welcoming to either everyone or noone, everything else is just bigotry
If an individual or company violates prevailing prosocial norms within a community (not paying taxes in either case), the community reserves the right to remove them. If a company or individual threatens the long-term well being of the community (e.g. the business ecosystem) the community has the right to reject them. In the limit this is obvious (and provides a fairly robust counter-example to "Let's be welcoming to everyone"): a company can reject criminal or criminal organizations. Google's tax avoidance behavior has been pretty clearly antisocial (e.g. the double Irish Dutch sandwich arrangement), and arguably criminal.
There are limits on Uber in Germany and limits on AirBnB in Berlin (IIRC it is not Germany-wide) for exactly this reason. It seems that Berliners are similarly worried about negative externalities entailed by Google establishing a campus there. If Google is willing to conform to community standards it may well have a place there. But that would probably require paying some back-owed taxes :)
- Concerned648 8y agoAh, appealing to the "gesundes Volksempfinden" to get rid of unwanted people? > It seems that Berliners No, it's just some racist people operating a web site. They even suggest shooting Google ("bullets for Google", https://fuckoffgoogle.de/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Kugeln_fur_Google.jpg https://fuckoffgoogle.de/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Ku...). I'll wait a bit to see if they will make the connection to the Jewish world conspiracy (often refered to as "wall street", "financial elite" in such circles).
- m90 8y ago> I'll wait a bit to see if they will make the connection to the Jewish world conspiracy (often refered to as "wall street", "financial elite" in such circles). This is very important. It's so deeply rooted in all of this it has me full of disgust. But apparently it's ok as long as you're german and you're not making rap music.