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0 pointsGibbon16y ago0 comments

Um... Only software developers.

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And human resources departments, and finance departments, and investors, and people with 401ks, and people who depend on taxes, and anyone who sells goods etc... They produce a lot of value to the US economy

dvdhnt6y ago

> and people who depend on taxes

What is that supposed to mean?

We all depend on taxes. Have you heard of public infrastructure? NASA? DoJ?

It's super disingenuous to pretend that the average employee is somehow getting massive value from giant tech companies. Someone would need to be very (probably intentionally) oblivious to believe that.

forgotmyhnacc6y ago

OP meant people employed by local city and state governments, that the tech company resides in probably.

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