But the big tech names are the most egregious offenders: Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber... how does that mesh with a brand that claims to be about saving the world, community, yadda yadda?

Is Uber really a more egregious offender than Exxon-Mobil? I am not at all defending large "tech" companies but to pretend that they are the first (or the worst) when it comes to dodging taxed is rather silly. Exploiting every last tax loophole possible is something common to all sufficiently wealthy individuals/corporations—even the queen herself is in on it.

> to pretend that they are the first (or the worst) when it comes to dodging taxed is rather silly.

Who did? Name one actual instance where one actual person did claim they're the first to ever do that.

Sure, many more people think they're the worst than the first so maybe i should have swapped the order and the parentheses. However, the entire present conversation around "tech" is rooted in an implicit waryness of the novelty of the whole enterprise.

Because the biggest companies on the planet are tech now, mostly. They're all enormously profitable and pay a scandalously low rate of tax.

I feel like this has slipped many by. People consider Big Oil or Big Pharma the evil huge companies whereas tech is still the rebellious underdog changing the world.