It usually works more like:

  - we want 1.4B, but it will take 10 years in courts
  - best I can do is 800M (or even lower)
  - ok, we'll take it

source: I'm italian and many tech giants did this already. Apple opened an academy in Naples too.

Not only tech giants, everybody from celebrities to random Joes can get away with it.

My mother's husband owed 70k+ EUR in taxes and at some point the judge proposed and he agreed to 2800 euros.

The trick is to not have a bank account in your name only, you have it joint with a child/spouse and they can't take your money. Nor they can take your house, if you only have one.

Eventually under those situations the judges try to take anything rather than nothing.

I'm not defending this situation, just saying it's widespread and the fact that every two governments come one that does a "condono", which is essentially "let's agree with tax evaders for some 50% of the tax they owe so they are happy and we see something" doesn't help.

Harsher punishment should be warranted, but you can't go to prison for tax evasion.

> The trick is to not have a bank account in your name only, you have it joint with a child/spouse and they can't take your money.

Yes they can take 100% of your part of that bank account which amounts at total / # of owners.

The trick is in the mud between what's yours and what's theirs. The induced doubt is lucrative.

You 100% should be able to go to prison from tax evasion. Not to fill prisons just to line prison owners' pockets like in the US, but definitely have the possibility for egregious offences.

you can… it’s just not really clear that anyone does. that said, i think if you polled the average joe on the street, they would overwhelmingly say that you can, which is probably a net gain for society.

Congrats!

LGTM

Hey, I had the same idea to replicate https://milliondollarhomepage.com/ with AI last sunday.

I made https://napo.dev/sunflowers instead.

See Apple in my previous comment

downvote all you want. google has all the money to keep up and just wait for the others to die. apple is a different story, btw, can probably buy openai or anthropic, but for now they're just waiting like google, and since they need to provide users AI after the failure with Apple Intelligence, they prefer to pay for Google and wait for the others to fight against each other.

openai and anthropic know already what will happen if they go public :)

That’s not a well informed argument. Even if Apple could finance the $1T+ it would cost to buy Anthropic - they’re not making that money back by making the iPhone a little better. The only way to monetize is by selling, as Anthropic does, enterprise services to businesses. And that’s not Apple’s “DNA,” to use their language.

Google is vulnerable in search and that already shows as we see a decline as many parallel paths emerge. At the beginning it was a simple lookup for valid information and it became dominant - then pages of pay ranked preference spots filled pages that obscured what you wanted = it became evil.

We see no such thing. Google just announces review revenue and profit and Apple hinted at it not seeing any decline in revenue from their search deal with Google which is performance based.

And Gemini is already integrated into the results page and gives useful answers instantly, alongside advertising... What problem for google are you seeing?

What will happen if they go public?

Completely rewriting fullremote.it (a platform for italian tech workers looking for remote jobs) in next.js using claude as "pairing buddy"

They do this every year since a while :)