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		Nasrudith on June 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in Calif... Revenue, while it would solve the fact that profit-taking vs reinvestment is arbitrary there are other flaws. For one that would make it disproportionately ruinous on low margin businesses. If the fix was so simple I suspect that we would see it tried in more places.

recursive on June 19, 2024 [–]

I don't think it's just simplicity. It's probably also contrary to the interests of some of the law-makers' biggest donors.

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