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Re:France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet... by yostrovs on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:30PM (#19303084)
You're conflating all sorts of rich people into a single type and then use that as the universal example. Warren Buffet lives in Nebraska and operates his conglomerate just fine from there. This he was doing before the internet age, something that now allows for even greater freedom of moving and operating from distant places.
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Re:France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet... by magduf on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:15PM (#19304290)
Warren Buffet is one of the richest people in the world, on par with Bill Gates. He isn't representative of "rich people", which in America can be said to be 1% of the population (or several million people).

Nebraska isn't exactly third-world either.

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