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Corporations “boykotting” Russia? Lucky them…

No, Oracle, Cisco, AMD and Intel, not you, please. I'm talking about Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook, Apple and the like… All of them do way more harm to a country than they do good. Let's take Starbucks: Their service could easily be done (and was done) by local cafés. Just that those cafés hire more people per sold cups of coffee, demand lower prices, and, most importantly, pay much, much more taxes. Mainly because they lack the complex infrastructure including shell- and mailbox companies in Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands, Panama and the like, and at the most part the sheer criminal energy. Getting rid of Starbucks means more and better jobs for the people, and more taxes for the state. Both not really what we wish for Russia right now. The same is valid for Amazon and the smaller online traders and retail shops they put out of business. Not only do…


No, Oracle, Cisco, AMD and Intel, not you, please. I'm talking about Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook, Apple and the like… All of them do way more harm to a country than they do good. Let's take Starbucks:

Their service could easily be done (and was done) by local cafés. Just that those cafés hire more people per sold cups of coffee, demand lower prices, and, most importantly, pay much, much more taxes. Mainly because they lack the complex infrastructure including shell- and mailbox companies in Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands, Panama and the like, and at the most part the sheer criminal energy.

Getting rid of Starbucks means more and better jobs for the people, and more taxes for the state. Both not really what we wish for Russia right now.

The same is valid for Amazon and the smaller online traders and retail shops they put out of business. Not only do (did) those shops pay more taxes and employ more people with, at least in Europe, better salary. But by spending more money on labor, and keeping less for profits they further increase tax revenue, because labor in almost all countries is taxed much higher, and it's much harder, if not impossible to evade those taxes, unlike (corporate) profits.

Not to mention the adverse effects that companies like facebook have on democratic elections.

See China if you want to know what happens in countries that (even for sinister reasons) manage to keep those US-corporations out. They can grow their own competing corporations, which at least follow the countries laws (I know, I know, not necessarily a good thing especially in China) and pay their damn taxes there.

What does Germany have to do to get Amazon and Starbucks to boykott us? We're not going to raid Poland again, but we might consider Luxembourg if it let's us get rid of Payload Bezos…

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