| I think the standard counter argument to this is essentially: 1. Governments are ultimately responsible for this. 2. These social safety nets are funded by taxes 3. The specific man in this specific story runs a company that as recently as a few months ago was labelled the worst offender for tax avoidance. [1] 4. Jeff is now wealthier as a result of avoiding taxes on both a company and personal level 5. People who otherwise might have had a hot meal and a roof over their heads now don't. There is a whole separate counter argument to what I have just said about how it wasn't technically illegal to avoid the taxes using the specific loopholes that he has used. My original comment about people are ultimately responsible for the kind of society they want to live in speaks directly to this. Should we maybe think about closing some of those loopholes and getting a lot more serious about tax avoidance among the top 0.1% of companies and people in the world? [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/02/new-study-d... |