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Re:The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Str... by amarcheschi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:45PM (#41573181)
That take feels kinda... Detached from the average person to me? I don't know how to take it, just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$. Common Joe would benefit much more from taxes being actually paid than profits being accumulated by companies just so they can crush the competition more and earn more and (...)
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Re:The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Str... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:30PM (#41573575)
> just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$

When was that?

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Re:The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Str... by amarcheschi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:37PM (#41573623)
I've never seen a real video, it may as well be a common saying after being on the internet for a so long time. However, there is a video of gates trying to guess grocery prices on the internet, and he's not that bad. I think at this point it's just an internet meme that exist to reference billionaires being disconnected from reality
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Re:The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Str... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:41PM (#41573647)
> I've never seen a real video, it may as well be a common saying after being on the internet for a so long time.

I mean, I can show you the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw

But that has nothing to do with Bill Gates or any other person named Gates. (You might be aware that Bill Gates isn't a woman.) It's a joke on a comedy show. It's not something anyone has ever said.

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Re:The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Str... by fwip on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:17PM (#41582704)
Likely that they conflated it with this video of Bill Gates guessing grocery prices on the Ellen show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_higXixRA
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