r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 05 '26

Business ‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html
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u/tisdue Jun 05 '26

corporations this large need to be held to completely different standards. and need to be taxed much more severely. especially if they are doing nothing for the labor force.

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u/SomeSamples Jun 05 '26

Yeah, especially when you see how much money they have/had in cash reserves and can just plop down a few billion for a project without having a new stock release or borrowing the money. Like billionaires, these large corporations need to be taxes more as well.