why was the wealthiest, most powerful country on earth dependent on the charity of a profit-making software company to outfit its medical personnel with basic protection in the face of a pandemic? Part of why individuals like Benioff could crow about giving back was because of how comprehensively they had taken to begin with. They had benefited from public goods financed by taxpayers—the schools that educated their employees; the internet, developed by publicly funded research; the roads, the bridges, and the rest of modern infrastructure, which enabled commerce—and then deployed their
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