How Value Should Be Calculated When It Comes to Multinational Corporations?

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Two different framings for how value can be calculated or observed when it comes to multi national corporations, but particularly these platforms. On the one side, we have the eu, and i'd imagine some other global north countries like australia, canada, backing this notion that the taxes should be based on the sales and the profits that companies make. Whereas there is an alternative proposal out of countries in the global south that says, actually, we should be considering the benefits that these companies derive from the populations who use these tools.

Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate.

Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers. He recently made the case for a digital non-aligned movement. Follow Juan on Twitter as @juanof9.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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