• its_pizza@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      Most of the money spent on product development is likely going to engineers (who are in turn paying tax on their payroll) or to other software/IP vendors (who in turn are paying their own engineers).

      Granted, that’s probably not as good a use of capital as, say, direct benefits to people in poverty, but it’s vastly better than stock buybacks in terms of public benefit.