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I disagree, if a company can legally avoid paying extremely high taxes then they have a duty to do so. It isn't their job to fix the system that governs them a
by fossuser 16y ago
I disagree, if a company can legally avoid paying extremely high taxes then they have a duty to do so. It isn't their job to fix the system that governs them and Google contributes many useful things back to the community through their products. I'd rather they have the money then the governments of the countries they're in, I think they can do more with it.
- dbingham 16y agoIt is all of our jobs to fix the system that governs us. As long as you live in a democracy, then you are the only ones who can. And the more power (money) you have, the more responsibility you have for that. Does Google education the people of the world? Build the roads? (In many places) Maintain the health care systems? These are vital. Governments do this and much, much more.
- speby 16y agoBy all of our jobs you mean individual people. Google is a company so yes, I'd agree the people that work for Google are individually responsible for managing and fixing their systems of government but "Google" itself is just a virtual entity. While Google is not primarily an educator, I'd say Google offers a lot of educational content that, presumably, does educate people. As for roads and health care systems, well they haven't ventured there yet. ;)
- mentat 16y agoGoogle has corporate personhood and the right of political speech that comes with it. One would hope that the right of political speech also came with a responsibility to improve the system. If there isn't any responsibility attached to political speech beyond increasing profits then I have some serious concerns about what the impact to individual people will be.