The ultra wealthy, if not breaking the tax law, are paying what the government believes they should pay and are not avoiding anything. Congress wrote, voted on, and passed the tax laws.
I have a friend who has worked at a few companies at what I thought were pretty average jobs. I asked him how he liked the jobs ... his response "the money is green". His priorities were bank 1st everything else second. He had no qualms about it ... I admire him for that.
When I tell my wife about something like this conversation goes something like ...
Wife: Why would they do something like that
Me: You know why
Wife (sheepishly): Money
Me: ding, ding, ding
You may or may not be better off. How will people that are/aren't part of a union be treated if some people are members? If majority is union and you are not, will you be shunned, denied same opportunities for promotion, etc? We can only guess.
"Any real solution will have to be legislated. "
So true. Congress can amend the particular section of the code to explicitly exclude APIs from being copyrightable ... if they want to.
The dissenters said that the 1964 Civil Rights Act did not intend to cover sexual orientation or gender identity and that the proper remedy is for Congress to change the law and not for the courts to, in effect, become legislators.
Having worked for a company that built and sold software to utility companies, #s 1 and 5 resonate with me. Consumers don’t care about energy and it's brutal selling to utilities.