The Snaring Economy 0
Evgeny Morozov reveals the dirty little secret behind Uber and its snaring compatriots. A nugget; do please follow the link for the rest:
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To put it bluntly: the reason why Uber has so much cash is because, well, governments no longer do. Instead, this money is parked in the offshore accounts of Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms. Look at Apple, which has recently announced that it sits on $200bn of potentially taxable overseas cash, or Facebook, which has just posted record profits of $3.69bn for 2015.
Welcome to the corporacracy.
