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LOL.

Australia is the richest nation (that isn't just a tax dodge) on earth. Sure because the metric used is USD it varies.

I'm going to give you a great grounding example. A typical gardener in this country can take home $80k USD a year. That has to be 4 times or more someone in the USA. I'm not talking a garden contractor in Bellair I'm talking an average Joe.

Google are great at hiding their revenue but I guarantee you that Australia represented a good 20% of the US based revenue. Despite having a population that's only 10% or so.

They would absolutely have their bottom line impacted by withdrawing but they aren't going to. Because of the former sentence.




>Australia is the richest nation (that isn't just a tax dodge) on earth. Sure because the metric used is USD it varies.

I don't think the OECD agrees with you there.[0] Ahead of Australia in GDP per capita PPP according to the OECD are: Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway, the United States, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Sweden, and Belgium. Not accounting for PPP the World Bank still puts several countries ahead of Australia.[1] Looking at incomes, Australia is not at the top either.[2] I don't think Australia has an outsized impact on Google compared to the US. If these numbers are anything to go by, then Australia's impact relative to population would actually be smaller.

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=61433

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?most_rec...

[2] https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm


> Google are great at hiding their revenue but I guarantee you that Australia represented a good 20% of the US based revenue. Despite having a population that's only 10% or so.

Source please - otherwise you're just pulling numbers out of thin air.




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