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jt121 t1_j7fx8co wrote

Technically, corporations pay income tax equivalent to all of their employees' income tax (part of FICA), along with a corporate income tax. So, technically they pay the tax you pay and then some. That said, I'm firmly in the camp that Google and others should pay much more to encourage reinvestment of their profit instead of money hoarding like Google and other multi-billion-dollar corporations do.

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vyratus t1_j7fugy7 wrote

Have a few friends at Google, and was recently chatting to a head of EU for a midsize tech company. Consensus is that FAANG type companies are using the market as an excuse to get rid of dead weight, I assume because if they did it when nobody else was it would attract a lot more bad press

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FuehrerStoleMyBike t1_j7fsexs wrote

I think its part the stronghold of religion and part the lack of confrontation. Fear (and nothing else is having a negative view onto a whole group of people) is mostly not rational and comes from a lack of knowledge. The more you dont know the more you can potentially fear.

Also I think religion is a particular interesting subject since those 3 religions (Islam, Judaism and Christianity) are siblings and much more simular than different when compared to other big religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism. It is well established that familiarity may lead to animosity. In most murder cases a family member is the culprit. Or look at Harry and William - the british princes etc.

So in the end I think its a mixture of closeness and strageness. Close enough to be involved with each other but too distant to be united.

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