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It passes the "business at scale" test.

How much do you pay when you buy an iPhone?

How much do you think a business that gives iPhones to its employees pays per iPhone?

If they pay half of what you pay, per phone, is it unfair?

Sure. maybe there's a 50% spread between those price points.

But they still pay orders of magnitude more money to Apple than you do.

.00005% of $big_pile_of_money is a better deal to Ireland than 10% of $0, because Apple HQ'd elsewhere.



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