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Wouldn't this give other companies in other countries (who thereby can't be split up) more power and prominence?
by samename 6y ago
Wouldn't this give other companies in other countries (who thereby can't be split up) more power and prominence?
- Avicebron 6y agoThis is the classic argument, "we need our big guy to fight their big guy", it's not true. Nimble smaller companies can work, and it's not like we don't have a government to negotiate how we address large foreign companies. What this is arguing is ceding national power to a private corporation because we have given up on the govt. It's a weak smokescreen..... Besides. They. Dont. Pay. Taxes. In. The. Country. They. Claim. To. Be. Protecting.
- rrdharan 6y ago> Besides. They. Dont. Pay. Taxes. In. The. Country. They. Claim. To. Be. Protecting. Besides being an incredibly annoying way to state your point (leave the hand-claps on Twitter, please), note that their very highly paid employees pay a ton of tax. Abolishing the corporate income tax entirely is something I'm in favor of and it has its proponents across the political spectrum: https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/the-progressive-case-for-abolishing-the-corporate-income-tax-2 https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/the-progressive-case-f...
- Barrin92 6y agoonly if the split up companies do worse in their split up form, which I don't really see happening for a lot of them. Why would AWS be a worse company if it oeprated on its own? If size was the only thing that mattered you'd never see small companies beat big companies, in countries or across them. This is generally not the case. Healthy ecosystems seem to be more important long term than short-term dominance.