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It is a company's responsibility to follow laws. It is not, however, a company's responsibility to build highways, or to figure out how to finance the building
by fixermark 8y ago
It is a company's responsibility to follow laws.
It is not, however, a company's responsibility to build highways, or to figure out how to finance the building of said highways, or to set up and fund public education, or to hire and pay police, is the point. When it becomes a company's responsibility to do so, we march gleefully into one of several dystopian cyberpunk science fictions (pick your favorite) ;)
- falcolas 8y agoCompanies, however, do take full advantage of the infrastructure built by the government using tax dollars, both directly and indirectly. For example, Google takes advantage of government contracts and grants, paid for by taxes. They also take advantage of the highway, city, water, power, education, housing, copyright and trademark laws, unemployment insurance, and legal (that is, the court system) infrastructure largely built and paid for (directly, by grants, or subsidies) using taxes.
- fixermark 8y agoAnd they pay taxes for the privilege (either directly or indirectly, by paying employees who pay taxes).
- manigandham 8y agoThat's just circular logic. Google/people take advantage of things paid for by taxes, because they paid those taxes.