this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

For non rich people I mean.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prison is more like getting your account suspended for not paying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paying taxes is voluntary, filing isn't. At least for the US.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So basically that new anime Zom 100...https://myanimelist.net/anime/54112/Zom_100__Zombie_ni_Naru_made_ni_Shitai_100_no_Koto

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tell me you're first world white without telling me you're first world white

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A pretty safe assumption on English speaking parts of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wtf. Is everyone in the first world white?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

?? What does race have to do with this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Something something Neverland Ranch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And you can't unsubscribe! Also the subscription service wants you dead or enslaved!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

• 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not with that attitude

(we commit a little tomfoolery 😉)

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