[ulfw]

100 Billion not spend on taxes that could benefit everyone, 100 billion on charging customers too much (because Apple obviously doesn’t need the money), 100 billion not spent on employees or hiring or R&D or keeping any of their product lines properly alive (hello Macs, hello software)

[throwaway84742]

Share buyback is often a mechanism to compensate the employees, actually. It works 2 ways:

1. By boosting the value of already granted RSUs, both vested and unvested.

2. By augmenting the pool of shares that can be issued to employees as RSUs.