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Also, removes any incentive to build things that last. Hollow out one beautiful place of historic pedigree like some blight attacking a tree, then move on to the next as that place crumbles behind you. t.co/wEdPFHOBpE

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@Triquetrea

Jun 3

Back in the day, consigning a rich and powerful person to exile was considered an incredibly severe punishment. Today, billionaires will change their citizenship to some tiny country without an extradition agreement just to avoid paying child support for some illegitimate child.

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@Triquetrea

Corporations that operate primarily in tier 1 economies will put their HQ in Shitsville, Nowhere just to avoid paying taxes. It's not like it matters one whiff for their ops.

11:35 AM · Jun 3, 2022Twitter Web App

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I'm kind of surprised that more large corps didn't embrace remote working sooner and more enthusiastically for the same reason. A distributed workforce makes the company more legally portable.

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"Workforce"? Don't you mean independent contractors who work conspicuously long hours with no job security probably in violation of local labor laws yet with no legal recourse for jurisdictional reasons?

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