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Even if a company doesn’t pay taxes, its masses of highly paid workers do. Each of those SWEs making $300k+ are paying more in taxes than the entire earnings of the average EU dev.

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Aha, the cries of the once well-payed SWE laid off and replaced with some cheap hire oversea come up at least once a week for a year or two already. The funny thing about transnationals - they do not care about the society they operate in.

But what about the rest, not these lucky SWE who had a good run for the last 10-15 years? How is it going, education, medicine, crime, inequality? All is splendid, I assume?

I still don't get why that's so complicated to understand that more well paid workers = more taxes for the state, and some are vehemently expecting a "source" for this.

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