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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you explain to me exactly how moving where profit is recorded from one division to another in the same organization reduces their tax burden? Because, excuse me, I know I only did a year or two of accounting courses before dropping the degree, but that's not how I understand taxes to work.

Also to be turning a profit by "doing well collecting data", the open market value of the data Alexa alone annually generates would need to be around 8% of the entire global data market. If you can justify how millions of instances of "Alexa set a timer for 10 minutes", "Alexa what is the weather", or "Alexa play despacito" generates that much value, maybe you have a point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Excuse me”

You seem pretty agitated, and I don’t want to engage with you if you’re going to be impolite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah well, apologies for being a little sassy, but I'm not exactly a big fan of your tone either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You used polite words, but you were condescending. I'm not interested in whether that was intentional or not, but that is the vibe you gave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s the vibe you put on it. Not the intended vibe. Not everyone is trying to start shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As I said, I don't care if you "intended" to be condescending, I'm saying you were. Judging by your comment history you often are, so maybe get used to people responding with a bit of attitude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Don’t judge a book by its comment history. You should block me, so we don’t have to interact again. I will do the same. I wish you well.