Google pledges 1 million € to Berlin startub hub The Factory

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46 points·Vilvaram1··10 comments

might help out everyone more if they just paid more taxes in more european countries, vs playing selective benefactor when it suits them.

It's nice how when you are rich enough you have a choice of paying taxes?

You know what startup would grow the size of Google? One that would provide fully automated, dirt cheap tax avoidance for the masses. If anything, that would be one way of closing the various loopholes that everybody knows about.

You can add to that the whole subsidize issues. Lots of opportunities in the EU but very few who are really knowledgeable on how to optimize/maximize that subject.

A friend of mine just finished a programme to semi-automatically trawl through European wide (mostly government) invitations for tender. Paid less than his usual gigs, but he liked the AI aspect of it.

Yes, subsidize go mostly to the people who can afford the lawyers / clerks to trawl through them.

You are assuming that the state (tax recp) would know how to invest it most efficiently into startups.

(Not saying that the way large companies get around taxes is a good thing for the society)

No, I'm not saying that.

"might help out everyone more"

"efficient investment into startups" is not "helping out everyone more", despite the echo chamber that is silicon valley.

Maybe they feel the government is colossally ineffective when it comes to efficiently converting taxes into jobs?

Wish it had gone to c-base

Nah. Can only imagine the "sell-out!!" out-cries... ;)

On the other hand, it could do with it's planetary stack pointer thrust engine being repaired.

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