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Real rebels pay their taxes

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Talkat NDC Oslo 2020 · 2020-06-08..06-12· [open-source, tech-ethics]

speaker

name:Nils Norman Haukås
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/-LmYN7CKCbY
slides:none on file

summary

Argues it is unethical to spend free time learning and building on tech from tax-avoiding giants, citing examples: React, Kubernetes, AWS powering huge market caps (~$1.2–1.4T) while Apple fights the EU over €14 billion and Amazon reports zero federal income tax (2018). Points to harms — Facebook enabling Rohingya violence, Cambridge Analytica, Google Project Dragonfly, alleged Amazon sale of facial recognition to ICE, Apple blocking right-to-repair — and recommends alternatives: vanilla JS, web components, libraries over frameworks, copyleft dual licensing, and measuring environmental impact.

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chapters (38)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:07GAFAM - the big five
  3. 1:27Runaway tax optimisations
  4. 2:12Market capitalization
  5. 3:13Societal costs
  6. 6:06whoami
  7. 10:54Rebels critique systems
  8. 11:05Developers build systems
  9. 12:19Morality
  10. 12:47Categories of ethical theories
  11. 13:08Virtue ethics
  12. 13:54Deontology
  13. 14:55Consequentialism
  14. 15:19Utilitarianism
  15. 17:46Makers vs. takers
  16. 18:42Political arithmetic
  17. 21:55Production boundary
  18. 22:36Banks as unproductive
  19. 23:32Value extraction
  20. 24:26Rent-seeking platforms
  21. 24:55The neoclassical narrative
  22. 27:35Value by circular logic
  23. 29:19Billionaire Philanthropy
  24. 30:06Tax and government
  25. 31:08Wealth is power
  26. 32:14Tax bills
  27. 34:10Our task at hand
  28. 35:27How does React benefit Facebook?
  29. 36:10Beware the free hammers
  30. 36:51Alternative-cost
  31. 37:20What gives value in 10-20yrs?
  32. 38:43The web ca 2003
  33. 39:20Social silos
  34. 40:28Building accessible alternatives
  35. 40:44Evaluating time investments
  36. 42:05Lowering barrier to entry
  37. 42:28What we should do
  38. 45:50World Wide Waste

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