Re:EU lost up to €5.4B in tax revenues from Google, Facebook...
by kuschku on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:36AM
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No company just adds 100% of its value.
Facebook isn’t anything new – maybe it adds 10% more value than MySpace would have had if Facebook didn’t exist in the EU. Maybe it adds 20% more value than the VZ Networks would have added.
You can’t just look at the entire value these companies provide, because local providers existed before Facebook and Google replaced them. Yes, Google and Facebook are overally more efficient, but only by a small amount.
Facebook isn’t anything new – maybe it adds 10% more value than MySpace would have had if Facebook didn’t exist in the EU. Maybe it adds 20% more value than the VZ Networks would have added.
You can’t just look at the entire value these companies provide, because local providers existed before Facebook and Google replaced them. Yes, Google and Facebook are overally more efficient, but only by a small amount.