• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    To be clear, I’m not listening to anyone. I think the government should step in and force a maximum of 5% on all stores, or something similar.

    The fact that they all take the same percentage is exactly the reason why I’m saying there’s collusion going on.

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      4 months ago

      I’m sure you came up with that 5% number after careful research and didn’t just pull some low round number out of your ass.

      /s

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      4 months ago

      Government of which country or countries? You wouldn’t think they would stay in the US if what you said will happen, would you?

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        4 months ago

        Their propaganda machine works so well, you’re proving it by bringing up all the usual talking points.

        “They offer a good product so they deserve it.”

        “They would leave if they were forced to reduce their profits.”

        You know what countries can do? Get together and impose the same kind of rules to all companies no matter where they’re established. They can also decide to force companies to pay taxes based on where the revenue came from under the threat that they won’t be able to do business in their territory anymore.

        It’s funny how in a previous conversation you were saying that people should be able to make donations to devs and you never thought “Hey, maybe it’s not normal that only 50% of what I pay ends up in the pockets of the people doing the actual work…” and you even suggest that art should be encouraged via tax redistribution. Well guess what, that wouldn’t be necessary if multimillionaires and billionaires didn’t exist in the first place.

        People all around you are struggling and you’re defending the 1%, wake the fuck up.