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Re:Spotify Wants to Get into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in... by Kukumber on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:30PM (#33338146)
30% flat tax is worse than the current corporate tax in the US, what's insane is it's been like that since forever, and Valve also get away with it, even more insane considering they are all a monopoly

Google/Apple control the mobile app market, where is the self-regulation capitalism is supposed to promote? It sounds like a mafia at this point

30% flat tax, on top of your own taxes, it's not sustainable

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Re:Spotify Wants to Get into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in... by panarky on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:31AM (#33340466)
Do you have any idea how much high-traffic shopping malls charge for a storefront? What you call "tax", shopping malls call "rent".
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Re:Spotify Wants to Get into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in... by TheMode on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:36AM (#33340491)
Sure, and you can pay for App Store ads separately... The issue is not that Apple charge for exposure, but that you are forced to.
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Re:Spotify Wants to Get into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in... by Kukumber on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:11AM (#33343132)
rent economy is the economy of the dead

if people don't understand this, then we are doomed

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