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- utopian0
More than 41,000 people have signed petitions to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth after his trip to space next month.
- CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964******** - yahoo article ->
+5k for bothsted - where do I sign?MrT
- People are stupidmonospaced
- CEO, entrepreneur
- shapesalad2
Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds:
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06…
- grafician0
JUST IN: Warren Buffett donates $4.1 billion to charity and resigns as a trustee of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Hello Sir I have new charity foundation we accept donations. Our Charity is to support ME.shapesalad
- i_monk5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/w…
'This is a food bank now': Workers seized a McDonald's in France
- grafician2
- This guy is great, but what does he mean "40 cents of every dollar goes through FB, Amazon or Google." He says like everyone already knows what this means********
- This guy is great, but what does he mean "40 cents of every dollar goes through FB, Amazon or Google." He says like everyone already knows what this means
- grafician2
BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announces that 130 countries, representing over 90% of global GDP, have agreed to a global minimum tax on large corporations.
- Wow! The other 65 counties are about to gain a lot of corporate HQs and GDP share!********
- ^eggzactlyGuyFawkes
- Or, they would if there weren't guaranteed to be a plethora of loopholes********
- Can I see a list of the 10%... so I can plan my move.shapesalad
- see you there shapeMrT
- Amazon will now become a proud Tanzanian companysrhadden
- My understanding is that won't work. They'll be taxed based on where they do business, not hq. But I have zero faith any of this will make a difference.formed
- but that's the point!
In Europe if you stay in one place for at least 6 months you need to change your tax jurisdiction and you pay taxes there, not at homegrafician - Amazon doing lots of business in Europe and not paying a dime in taxes because they're a US company, it's over with this bullshitgrafician
- Btw here are the tax rates worldwide 2021: https://worldpopulat…grafician
- Wow! The other 65 counties are about to gain a lot of corporate HQs and GDP share!
- ********1
Janet Yellen also tweeted:
"In its place, America will enter a competition that we can win; one judged on the skill of our workers & the strength of our infrastructure."
Oh boy
- Not that this isn't good news. Biden already doing more about China than Trump. Why are we sold the lie that Dems and Repubs are opposites?********
- because of social and economic positions mostlymonospaced
- I mean they really are trying to get to the same goals. They just have different ways of imagining the journey. But yeah, socially, that means opposites.********
- socially and economically I don’t think there are shared goals thomonospaced
- Funnily enough, as fucked as the US is, we are home to both the worst and the best people in many ways. We do have highly skilled strong workers.monospaced
- They are often overshadowed by the majority of low skilled, lazy ignoramuses.monospaced
- True. And a ton of hard-working, highly skilled Americans are recent immigrants, on H1-B or farm visas, etc.********
- sure 100% true, but they ARE Americans, so ... kinda irrelevant, but great, point?monospaced
- (2018) "55% Of America's Billion-Dollar Startups Have An Immigrant Founder"
https://bit.ly/2V59z…grafician - Ppl come to the US to start shit because there's easy access to capital and easy growth with less regulation. Your infrastructure is shit, skills too.grafician
- Not that this isn't good news. Biden already doing more about China than Trump. Why are we sold the lie that Dems and Repubs are opposites?
- grafician2
- ironically, hunting may be more sustainable than farming. i'd use the analogy of 'mining'sarahfailin
- when 'mining' reaches sustainable energy consumption and global accessibility, a stable economy will wrap around it. (bit utopian, but imaginable in 10years)uan
- <There’s is so much that’s wrong with that pretentious wank. Humans are not ants, farming is exploitative and mining powers capitalism. And as Jane’s....Morning_star
- ...Addiction say, ”...be more like the ocean. No talking. All action”Morning_star
- grafician0
"The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes"
- uan4
- -OSFA
