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My tax dollars shouldn't subsidize bigco's support system

Wait till you hear about your tax dollars subsidizing bigco's poverty wages.

Ah yes, the famous FAAMG poverty wages ;)

You joke, but they do indeed pay poverty wages to a lot of their staff. Google and Facebook have their content moderators work at essentially minimum wage, and Amazon has order pickers pee in bottles to keep up with the expected volume. Apple has their products manufactured by Foxconn, which is well-known for installing anti-suicide nets on their buildings.

Not everyone is a well-paid software engineer, you know.

While you're spiritually completely correct, they're all going through legal hoops to separate themselves from these employees.

I.e. they outsource the work to an agency which get contractors to do the work for them.

Over the years we've had such controversies from all multinational corporations.

I'm just pointing this out as I noticed your comment being grayed out, and hopefully the person that downvoted you did so because of this technicality, and not because you had the audacity to critique Apple

> they're all going through legal hoops to separate themselves from these employees.

I hope you don't mean to imply that it doesn't absolve them of the moral/ethical responsibility.

I wrote this

> I'm just pointing this out as I noticed your comment being grayed out, and hopefully the person that downvoted you did so because of this technicality, and not because you had the audacity to critique Apple

And you're asking that question, really?

Walmart.

So they can tax companies directly.

That will eventually come out of my paycheck.

I honestly can't tell if you are being serious or trying to make some joke. If you are being serious, what you said makes no sense to me.

Why do you think taxes that are applied to companies will instead be a tax against your paycheck?

Note: increased cost for products is not what we are talking about. Pretending a tax on everyone is the same as a price increase on an optional product misses the point entirely. So please, answer the question.

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