Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU

• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only display virtues when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.

  Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.

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• Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.

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  • kippinitreal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fixed & noted. Thanks!

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So it takes you half a second to remove the “m”?

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And people using mobile can go stuff themselves? It doesn’t switch automatically either way.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It does for me. On mobile if Wikipedia notices you are using a mobile browser, it automatically redirects you to the m. URL.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        While I agree this is inconvenient, this sounds like something on Wikipedia to address.

        I think it’s going to be a losing battle to try to not only make everyone everywhere aware of the problem, let alone convince them to put in the (admittedly minimal) effort every time to deal with it.

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    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It actually does switch automatically on mobile, just not desktop, which is why I get annoyed enough when it happens to mention it.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fuck that’s depressing reading. I understand what US corporations get out of this but I’m still unsure why Ireland goes to this length to be a tax haven. What’s in it for them?

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They get to tax those trillions at an extremely low rate, right?

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  • massacre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure Ireland is now the richest country in the EU

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Technically Luxembourg. But Ireland is #2 by both GDP per capita and by mean income.

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is my impression whilst visiting Roscommon.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, if I believe the internet the EU will save us from Big Tech… checks where Ireland and The Netherlands are… Bugger.

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