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The 'news' here has very little to do with taxes and a lot to do with the end of nationalism.
In the past the success of a company was tied directly to the country, region, city and society it was part of, no matter what industry it was in or where sales were generated. Take Hershey as an example, they built a massive business for its time and created a thriving town in Pennsylvania as a direct result. They sold their products globally but worked under the ethos that their employees, country, government and the society around them were vital to their continued success.
In the modern era, rightly or wrongly, that ethos is gone. Companies do not feel any connection to society, and neither do wealthy oligarchs. They feel no obligation to the people who work for them, live in cities near their factories, provide a consumer base for their products or a tax base for the infrastructure they utilize. More than that, they see zero connection between their success (past, present or future) and society around them.
Rather than a period of symbiotic capitalism that promotes a healthy and prosperous relationship between corporations and society, which would allow capitalism to flourish for centuries... we are headed deeper into the abyss of confrontational capitalism where corporations and society fight with each other continually to the detriment of both.
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