Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
by Joeri on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:25AM
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They actually just had an election sweep where the incumbent government got punished badly for their perceived elitist policies.
Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
by holoduke on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:57AM
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Because these companies have no morals. They dont care if their foreign factory doesnt follow American laws regarding work safety and other regulations. As long as the local laws permits them they do anything what is possible. Only when things become public and affects their reputation things might change. Only then.
Thats why we dont welcome them.
Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
by shjake on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:26AM
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Don’t make your laws more lax than even the ones in America then? We’re talking about Holland here not some poor and corrupt developing country..
It’s no great secret than corporations are generally profit seeking and will try to utilize any “legal loophole” they can find. It would not be reasonable to expect them not to when the system they operate in strongly incentivize them to prioritize profit over anything else. I mean “nice corporations” will simply be outcompeted by the ruthless ones…
Why are the Dutch angry with EU and Microsoft and not with their elected Dutch government officials who set up these legal tax dodging opportunities to attract such corporations in the first place?
They made the rules, Microsoft (and other companies) are just following them.