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What's a co-op position?
Generally it's an extended internship as a supplemental part of a university curriculum.
So what else is new. If you work at Facebook or Google you're benefiting directly from the similarly shady practices they used to grow on their way to being "pillars of tech" today. Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook's revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago? Many speculated it was considerably higher, but Facebook never provided a full accounting (1). Or do you remember when Facebook literally…
As the cost per lead is bid up, they are eventually forced to drop out.
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There's a very clear fiduciary duty to pay as little money in taxes as you can, there exists no such duty to pay too much taxes. This is very black and white.
No, it isn't. Your statement is wrong and based on a flawed interpretation of Dodge v. Ford that makes the rounds on the Internet and refuses to die.
Based on my reading there certainly exists such a duty when it's beneficial, obviously tax avoidance isn't explicitly beneficial though. Potential law changes or even bad press could cost more than the amount of money saved.
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>you need to loosen from a theoretical moral ideal to a practical one that is informed by the competitive landscape of capitalism Not necessarily. It's very easy to think that existing industry protection laws are immoral and operate a company that skirts those laws without breaking morals.
Can you? I mean, at that point, you're basically deciding that a people are not allowed to self govern themselves.
Working around that is deciding that people aren't allowed to govern others.
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Some may consider avoiding taxes to be unethical, others might say not avoiding them would violate a fiduciary duty.
When people bring up "fiduciary duty" in either a taxes or outsourcing context (i.e. it's Apple's fiduciary duty to build its products in China), I always ask for a pointer to a successful lawsuit in which this particular fiduciary duty was enforced. Yes, in theory it's their fiduciary duty to minimize taxes, but I've never heard of a board being sued because they didn't squeeze every last dollar out of their tax bil…
1: http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20...
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One major difference is that Facebook and Google also provide value to their users. They do good and bad things. The company in the article did only bad things.
I think the company in the article would argue that they provide value as well.
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I interviewed for a co-op position there and was turned down. I guess they saved me some time.
What's a co-op position?
In my opinion a CS program is totally incomplete without a co-op requirement. My program requirements 12 full months co-op to graduate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_education
"Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience."
Practically co-ops are usually 6 months long and you apply to them like a regular job, just a temp position. Co-op positions are available all over the country. As long as you do full time work related to your degree program it counts. Your boss has to evaluate you and submit the short evaluation to your school. If you do very badly you don't get credit but it's a pass/fail, no grades.
Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
When I first moved to New York, I worked at a company that was an Ad Injection toolbar. I had no idea what the company did for six months. They hired me to make them a website. I worked alongside an art director and a content creator. Everyday, the reoccurring question was, "what exactly do we do". I was disconnected from the sales staff and the marketing side, so I kept working on a basic WordPress site. Six months…
Today my mother got AD on her phone with "Android update", it was a pop-up from one of normal sites she visit. So she touched "update now" as she normally do with system messages about update... Then she confirmed, then she got 2 SMS, in one that deal was finalized. WTF? I've checked with Orange and indeed she was charged and subscription was started, 20 euro a month for some 3 shitty sms per week. They have turned t…