• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Why? Little corporations must comply with KYC law, too. They’re all required to gather personal data.

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      2 days ago

      If a small business comply with KYC laws and gets breached, less than 1000 people get impacted. One would have to breach a million different companies to equal the scale of a single mega corporation.

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        2 days ago

        Ok but how would that even work? When a company’s product/service is good, then people start recommending it to others and more and more people start using it. The only way to stop companies from growing big is to force them to stop accepting customers after a certain point.

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          2 days ago

          No. You just tax the corporations based only on revenue and make the tax rate an exponential curve. Instantly too big to fail becomes too expensive to survive. Thus the businesses will naturally split into smaller companies.

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            2 days ago

            Then the big companies will just operate under multiple names to commit tax evasion like they already do and pay off the politicians to let them.

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              1 day ago

              So your reasoning is that it’s not enforced now, so it’ll never be enforced?

              Okay, no point in bothering then, huh?

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                1 day ago

                I’m saying that the big corporations have such a strong foothold that I personally don’t think we will ever be able to properly regulate them when they can pay off all of the politicians. I’m not trying to be a doomer, those are just my beliefs.

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              2 days ago

              Well yes, but that is something that they can’t hide from their investors and that information is public and tax fraud is one crime governments will kill corporations for