Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home

Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by noonespecial on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:49AM (#5761669)

It won't be long now until the large multi-national corporation will be a kind of nation-state in its own right. Distributing assets all around the planet making them inaccesible to any single government is the ultimate defense against nationalization. Without that threat hanging over them, they begin to act like sovereign nations.

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by mrich on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:56AM (#5761693)

Basically they are already doing that. The reason Apple is made the scapegoat here is probably

1) For publicity reasons, to make the public believe corporations are held accountable

2) To extort some lobbying money from Apple

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/23/apple-in-political-crosshairs-i...

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by sgift on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:55AM (#5761691)

As written (or predicted?) in various Cyberpunk novels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by camus on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:47AM (#5761841)

That is the dystopian future we will live in , Corporations replacing states. Everything will be private and own by corporations , like everything used to be owned by kings,royal families and the "blue blood".

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