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I am actually shocked that the Mac mini has been refreshed this quickly, after the previous gen taking nearly 4 years to get done. I bought the 4 core in April, with the storage refresh, thinking it would be a couple of years before the next refresh. Probably not the best time to buy.

My Macbook spends most of its time in clamshell mode. Face ID would be a waste.

spheric said:

randominternetperson said:

spheric said:

A company like Facebook will make billions in profit and generate maybe a dozen jobs and a mailbox office in each of three offshore tax havens, and still not pay any taxes. That is about to change in the next decade - hopefully.

Why should a "company like Facebook" with a dozen employees in a country--and therefore imposing negligible costs and reaping no benefits--be paying lots of taxes to that country?  Presumably the consumers of that company are already paying income taxes and possibly also sales tax on the product (although not in Facebook's case).  So why should these countries get a piece of the action?

Taxes are paid on INCOME, not on the number of employees. 

“No employees” means, simply, zero positive effect whatsoever upon the local economy — none: all the money is siphoned off to wherever; none of it remains as employee wages, which could spent locally and stay in circulation. The money is just gone, drained from the economy. 

Do you pay tax on income, or on the number of chairs you have in the office?

"Taxes are paid on INCOME, not on the number of employees. "
Depends where you live. In the UK you are taxed on the number of employees indirectly. Employers have to pay "Employers national insurance" as a percentage of the salary on every worker. Its around 15% of each workers salary. I always thought taxing a company for employing people was kind of absurd, but thats how the UK works it. I am a UK national.