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Welfare is commerce infrastructure; refusing to acknowledge this fact is what leads to the current dystopia of bankrupted welfare states in wealthy countries. Without a healthy customer receiving regular income allowing for discretionary spending, Amazon and Starbucks would simply not flourish, period. Regardless, these corporations refuse to share their burden in maintaining their own markets alive; they long for a parasitic model with no responsibilities towards their host system.

Google is in a slightly different place because it benefits less directly from this infrastructure. Which doesn't mean they shouldn't pay more than they do now, of course.



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