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• cperciva 5y ago
  Yes. The comment I responded to said "literally all companies", not "literally all large companies".
  • hobs 5y ago
    fwiw I upvoted you because I should have wrote "a vanishingly small amount of businesses, many who are probably screwing things up pretty badly"
    • cperciva 5y ago
      I suspect that the majority of businesses are small enough that their taxes are trivial and pretty harmless -- at least if you weight by count. If you weight by size -- sure, most business is big business and has complex taxes.
  • PeterisP 5y ago
    They're just using the word "literally" in its ever more popular sense in which it does not mean that it really does apply to all companies. For example, according to Oxford dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/literally https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... "used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not actually true in a literal sense" or Merriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally "used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible" ; in modern usage, "literally" can be it's own antonym and mean "not literally". Language is fun! :)
    • cperciva 5y ago
      The redefinition of "literally" to mean "not literally" is an abomination and should not be tacitly accepted.