• @saegiru
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t quite work because subscriptions are voluntary and taxes are anything but.

    For non rich people I mean.

    • @vezrien
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      131 year ago

      Taxes are the paid tier, if you want to live in the premium parts of the country. You can go with the free tier, but that’s prison.

        • @Slowy
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          1 year ago

          Free tier is homeless.

          But if you really grind you can do a decent off-grid build, it’s fun to play but still going to be a free tier experience of course.

  • @nothingcorporate
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    171 year ago

    My retirement plan: wait for the zombie apocalypse. No rent, no taxes, no cubicles.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Nah, its not free, all those years of time you lost with your parents while they worked was the trade as a child. Becoming a latch-key kid and the life-long childhood trauma of that is the trade.

    • Tb0n3
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      11 year ago

      I think being a latchkey kid is a lot better than having helicopter parents. And what fucking trauma are you talking about? Did you not make friends?

  • Venator
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    1 year ago

    Too bad you can’t move to another country and have a second childhood 😢

  • Metaright
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    71 year ago

    And just like paid subscriptions, all of the money (in the US, anyway) goes to the rich people in charge.

    • @Screwthehole
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      21 year ago

      Hey some of it goes to poorly pay all the middle managers and beurocrats

  • Nepenthe
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    1 year ago

    I can’t tell whether we’re just pretending for the joke that that’s anything like what taxes do, and the possibility that we aren’t makes me depressed

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It kinda is though? I recommend people shop around and find a country that they enjoy, then they won’t mind paying taxes.

      • Nepenthe
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        • If I stop paying taxes, they won’t remove me from the country, for starters. If I steal enough from them, they may make double-sure I remain a customer for the next several years.

        • If I make little to nothing and can’t afford a subscription taxes, they pay me.

        • Their free version works pretty much just like their paid version. People who pay wish they didn’t and people who don’t would kill for the opportunity.

        • Not everyone gets the same experience, even among people in the same bracket. (Alabama roads)

        • The government doesn’t mind if I share my citizenship, as long as I say I really like that person.

        • Even if they’re not supposed to be using the service country, extra sneaky ones still pay taxes, sometimes in the hopes of being legally permitted to continue paying.