The players are taking advantage of a system that allows them to lobby and make the rules.
That still falls under "the game" to me.
If this was on an episode of Game of Thrones we'd all be lauding at the sheer genius of the moves. But because we also pay taxes and feel like shit having to pay taxes while an enormous corp walks away essentially Scott free, we throw a tantrum.
This isn't entertainment. These are people's actual lives here. The fact you're pulling this disingenuous bullshit and saying it's a tantrum to want to hold a company responsible for paying the taxes they should means you've bought into this bullshit.
Yes Amazon isn't doing anything illegal. There are plenty of legal things that are fucked up in this country, just look at the amount of people incarcerated. If you judge everything by whether it's legal or not, you are using logic by a brain dead ant, aka Donald Trump. I urge you to reevaluate this.
To run a damn empire?
I'm sure I would give some money to family and causes that matter to me. Probaby rescue animals or something
So on one hand, we have an individual person making decisions about billions of dollars to causes that they think are just, in Bezos's case this is space travel. On the other hand, we'd possibly have a government, that while spending inefficiently, at least would hopefully have their citizens' well-being taken into account. There are millions of Americans living in poverty and Amazon is out here lobbying to reinforce this paradigm. Why do so many people support them? Empathizing with a billionaire instead of poor people. It's so aggravating.
