TheJesusaurus

Were approaching the point where they stop even pretending

There's a real easy way for him to not be eaten. Make sure he has no more than $999, 999,999 in his pocket when we get there

Gonna find out that shit doesn't fly in civilized countries

The legitimate use case for noncompetes is so tiny compared to the blanket clauses these corporation's want for everyone. It's nonsense

It's difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don't be evil motto was probably genuine.

Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn't this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit

Unlike how corporations behave

But why involve them at all? Why assume they are even acting in good faith?

At least we arrived at the correct outcome

You comfortable with how it's being enforced currently?

Unlike trustworthy corporations

I think k you are missing the pointy guy. The Germans though they couldn't be defeated either.

I mean, you probably shouldn't. Donate the money yourself or trough charities or in countless other ways.

They literally farm these tax credits from customers to pad their bottom line. You can bet that they are also playing tax and accounting games with the "donations" they make and who they make them to, likely further enriching a lot of their pals before the poor see a dime of it.