Gates unmasks the real face of Davos | Red Pepper:
"Amongst other reasons, a big factor is tax avoidance, enabled by the financial liberalisation regime put into place over 30 years by the likes of those who attend Davos. According to the Financial Times: ‘some 94 per cent of Microsoft’s $81bn is now outside the US.’
So Gates doesn’t want a higher minimum wage denting the amount of wealth his company is able to avoid taxes on. "
The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economics Went Down the Rabbit Hole
of No Return
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It is a curious thing that our politicians and economists in the Uniparty
believe that economic growth, now and forevermore, will solve all our
problems an...
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