Childhood is a relative sharing their subscription.
I wouldn’t call it sharing… don’t know about you but where i live you pay less taxes when having a child, and i’ve never seen a service make you pay less to share it.
That’s taxes. Life in general though, well that’s literally sharing.
The joke was that someone else was paying for it.
Parents pay more sales tax on things like diapers, clothes, etc.
I know I just thought the free trial would be more accurate.
I haven’t thought about sales taxes, i guess you do pay more taxes if you count those.
Although not really similar to a subscription in that case.
Although not really similar to a subscription in that case.
I mean, you have to keep paying for more food all the time…
More like a free trial? Then you die of syphilis
Do you enjoy roads, indoor plumbing, or schools? I can assure you that the “invisible hand” does not care about those things
Taxes is subscription to be part of a society.
As trash as we’ve made modernity Ill take this over dying of a shitborne disease in a mudhut
The hoops you have to jump through to cancel…
I would like to cancel this subscription. How do I do it?
Other countries are available with a range of affordable plans.
Die I guess
Suicide seems pretty extreme. Also, I don’t like suicide being suggested, even in jest, because you never know if someone on the other end just needed a tiny nudge to go through with it.
Alternatives off the top of my head:
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Move to a country without taxes. On the other hand, other than tax loopholes for the super rich, many of us living with US-level or above standard of living are unlikely to be happy in a country that does not collect taxes.
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Alternatively, you could set up a Star Trek-style system without the use of money in daily living, but that’s going to be a tall order.
My mom was an accountant and told me this story.
A finance guy had sole control of a rather large account. At some point he’s strapped for cash, and just needs a little to cover the next few weeks. So he pulls a little out of this account, writes down what he took and what he’ll pay back, including interest. He’s not trying to embezzle, he’s just in a tight spot.
Well, it goes pretty well, he paid it back and no one noticed. A few years pass and he’s in a tight spot again, no problem he’ll borrow from the account and pay it back just like before. Except this time he can’t cover it. But he manages to make a quick sale to bring some extra cash in to the account to conceal what he’d taken. This starts a pattern, he withdraws money, but because money is constantly moving in and out, no one really notices and he’s able to continue stealing money from this fund. It’s a few thousand initially, after a few years it’s a few hundred thousand.
Suddenly he’s in so far over his head there is absolutely no way he’ll ever be able to pay it back. It’s a matter of time before he gets caught and he figures that before he commits suicide, it would be best if he just came forward with it, perhaps some of the partners in his firm can help him out. This was an 11th hour revelation, as I understand this man realized he could just confess while standing on the bridge.
He explains what he did, why he did it, and gives an accurate accounting of how much he stole to his board. After a moment of shocked silence one board member stands up, and says “I know what you should do.” And before the relief could finish washing over him at a solution, he continued “you should kill yourself.”
Shortly after that meeting, the IRS is at his door with a handful of US Marshalls.
Line 8 kids, if you’re stealing money and no one’s noticing, it goes on Line 8. Break one law at a time.
2024-08-21 Amt. Unit Item 1 pc Star Trek-style systemdoes not seem that tall to me…
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Create a libertarian enclave. PLEASE update me on how it goes. Mind the bears.
You can change your subscription but never cancel it completely. Similar to housing and your job.
We did a full circle, from having subscription less software, to having to pay the license tax, to subscriptions, to now calling taxes subscriptions
And homeowners don’t actually “own” their home, what we call homeownership here is really the government acting as your landlord and renting your house/property to you in the form of taxes.
Whatever your yearly tax rate is, is your yearly rent. Which is why they can imminent domain that or kick you out for nonpayment of taxes. That’s why they can raise taxes if the value on “their” property increases, regardless of what causes the price increase.
We make homeowners a special class of renter so that they can build wealth/equity while also getting more freedom to modify their home. That’s also why it takes longer to “evict” them. Homes cost so much to buy initially (but are better over time and if you move/sell) specifically as a filter to keep them for the wealthy unless you participate in the military, farm industry, or colonization via USDA loans (VA loans ofc for the military)
Whew… I did not have “not living in a city is colonization” on my bingo card for today.
That’s not what I said. What I said is, that moving to the country to buy a house via USDA loans is an extension of colonization policies. That’s basically what homesteading is in the US.
And that’s not the city.
lol
I mean, imagine enabling a trial and then suddenly finding yourself screaming and pooping all day, waaah, waah. 👼
Well, later you are almost an adult.
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