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iwontberude on June 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare ...

Apple is not the reason why Silcon Valley is the way it is, this is emergent and not in any agents control. Let’s not forget Apple has large campuses around the US and in Ireland.

analognoise on June 11, 2024 [–]

Especially Ireland, because that’s how you can shelter a bunch of your profits from taxes.

Apple cares about Ireland as much as they can abuse them to not pay their share of taxes.

selectodude on June 11, 2024 | [–]

Apple has had a pretty large office in cork since 1980.

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