Taxing French Wine

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The eu. has the largest group of wealthy consumers in the world, 400 and forty five million people with precapita income of 34 thousand. It's also a jurisdiction where typically there is more public services. And so the governments need to collect more taxes. None of these big multi national ta corporations are europeans sor the europeans don't really need to fight for those interests, so to speak. Then we have this fourth group, which i'm grouping as the global south, which struggles immensely to collect a dime from any of these multi nationals if they tried to make a move. You know that they might pay sanctions through the wt, or through bilateral trump taris

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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