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If you're using definitions of a word that can not effectively differentiate between two very distinct things, you're using the wrong definition or the wrong word.
Taxation is not theft. Piracy is not theft. Using definitions of theft that include them triggers George Orwell alarms in anyone who knows better.
How are they very distinct? If I am forced to pay someone money against my will, with threat of violence if I don't, how is that not theft? Just because a state does it, does that make it different somehow?
If I didn't vote for it, it is by definition against my will.
With this thinking, getting paid for your work is theft for your employer.
It is called exchange of goods and services. Damn you guys really put the "ML" in lemmy.ml