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So you simply start a different company unrelated to the tech company. Similar to the tarrifs.. Apple gets an excempt because it cannot get their parts anywhere

So you simply start a different company unrelated to the tech company. Similar to the tarrifs.. Apple gets an excempt because it cannot get their parts anywhere else; because they are Apple-specific parts, manufactured there. Governments need to take a look outside their bubble and see that they are loosing power to global companies.

klez 7y ago
> Governments need to take a look outside their bubble and see that they are loosing power to global companies. Look, I know Hanlon's razor and all, but thinking that there's no complicity between the US government and US companies (you say global, I say US because FAMGA, in this case) is wishful thinking.
- mrep 7y ago
  > FAMGA GAFAM rolls off the tong a little better and what the french use (pretty funny article about them on the french wikipedia [0]) [0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
  - klez 7y ago
    I'm Italian, so neither really sound weird to me :)
ptah 7y ago
nations are becoming obsolete. soon it will be a william gibson world