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- But Jeff Bezos wants the public to bail out Amazon employees.NBQ00
- Imagine how much is sitting in offshore bank accounts, trust funds and shell companies.monoboy
- But no. 'That's my money, that I made on your labour, nurtured by the state system, that I don't pay a penny towards.'monoboy
- So what you say. Well, if they want those advantages to stick around, they should consider emptying those deep pockets.monoboy
- But they won't, because their 'competitors' will jump on the opportunity to fuck them over.monoboy
- Sharks.monoboy
- Just like Goldman Sachs did in 2008.monoboy
- I am anti monster business, but this idea that they don't pay anything is so miscontrued. I own a business and just like myself, amazon pays payroll taxes fortoemaas
- Every employee, plus 6%+ toward social security and another 1 or 2% towards Medicare. They just don't pay corporate taxes based of of their profits and losses.toemaas
- They've notoriously operated at a loss for years, reinvesting ant profits back into the business or slashing profits in order to hook customerstoemaas
- Monkey games played by monkey men, not human beings. This won’t change until people riot in the streets, lynch a few of them . Like Mussolini_niko
- Or quit buying everything online.toemaas
- You're right Toemaas. But our current system is dominated by money that makes money without producing anything.monoboy
- Tax wealth a bit more, labour a bit less. And things might be a little bit fairer. Old money monopolies aren't helping.monoboy
- Amazon is a good test case. It's taken decades of re-investment and hard work to get where they are now.monoboy
- But they are exploitative and are hoarding cash while warehouse workers are living in tents. Not great.monoboy
- Fix labour laws and a crackdown on shady banking is all I'm advocating.monoboy
- Especially hedge funds, disaster capitalists and offshore tax havens.monoboy
- I'm sure we can find a better way to raise tons of cash for investment without shafting others.monoboy