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Re:The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill by bluecalm on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:51PM (#13223811)
(2) is good, right? If people stop buying luxury goods then the resources are going to move to other things which is generally what we want.
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Re:The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill by paulddraper on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:26PM (#13224803)
> what we want

We being the operative word. Do "we" want people to buy more soylent green and fewer flatscreen TVs? Depends on who "we" is.

I submit that in aggregate what "we" want is what "we" are already buying.

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