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[-] saegiru@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

For non rich people I mean.

[-] vezrien@lemmy.world 13 points 1 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.

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

Prison is more like getting your account suspended for not paying

[-] Slowy@lemmy.world 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.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 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

[-] algalorp@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 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@sh.itjust.works 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?

[-] quickdrinkthis@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Venator@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 1 points 1 year ago

?? What does race have to do with this

[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Metaright@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Venator@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Something something Neverland Ranch

[-] evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 1 points 1 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@kbin.social 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.

[-] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

not with that attitude

(we commit a little tomfoolery 😉)

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