And when people talk about how companies skirt taxes, there is rarely any discussion about the major costs to the livelihoods of the people doing this financial work.

It isn’t just about finding creative ways to not pay money, it is about companies practically working their tax accountants to death in order to do it.

I knew someone who worked in taxes for a huge company and it was utterly insane: he worked, nearly literally, all the time: like 6 am to midnight, 7 days a week, for the entire damned quarter. Then the company thinks they’re doing them some kind of favor by giving them like ONE day off before they start feeling pressure to begin work on the next quarter’s numbers. All about the numbers. He described all these tricks used to shuffle things around the world. And those people were suffering mentally as well: I heard about constant screaming matches at work, colleagues on average ending their relationships in divorce, etc.