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Based on their stock and wealth, I don't think Meta and Google are exactly suffering. They've been getting away with this shit for, well, decades.

What does that have to do with anything? You don't become an economic super power by letting poorer countries tax your richest companies.

but you can become an economic super power by avoiding tax smaller companies pay?

Tax strategy is so integral to large corporations' business strategy that "tax strategy ≈ business strategy" is basically a true statement for them.