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.