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In 20 years I'm looking forward to buying Amazon Citizenship.

by peteretep 10y ago

ch4s3 10y ago
Wouldn't it be more of a membership?
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  yearly reserved citizenship cost .... or spot citizenship (They can kick you out of the country any time when someone is willing to pay more taxes)
  - djhworld 10y ago
    > yearly reserved citizenship cost a.k.a Prime membership.
FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago
Sign up for the Amazon Space Marines! Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
- gcatalfamo 10y ago
  Yes, until they send you off to Klendathu for duty...
- mtgx 10y ago
  More like "Sign-up to be a cog in our Space Mechanical Turk."
- antod 10y ago
  Now developers can fight bugs literally.
kmfrk 10y ago
Comes free with Prime.
djhworld 10y ago
* Prime members only
- bogomipz 10y ago
  The wind powered cloud.
dave_sullivan 10y ago
Amazon Citizenship: 1) They setup an offshore corporation for you in a low tax jurisdiction and give you payment processors to take checks and credit cards over the internet. Every few years, they move all of these corps en masse to lower tax jurisdictions, if any. More efficient competition among tax regimes. Amazon will file all pertinent taxes and paperwork and connects to your quickbooks to make that even easier. 2) They provide a phone number to an Amazon Embassy hotline. If you are ever captured by anyone and local authorities cannot help, call this number and Amazon PR will lobby for your rapid release and return to safety through aggressive social media outreach. They will also setup a gofundme page for you to cover legal expenses, etc. 3) Give up your American citizenship (if any) so you no longer have to pay taxes in the US while not living or working in the US. 4) Amazon World Citizen Passport So you can work, maybe get some physical/political help if that's needed, and travel freely. What else is there? The cost? 5% of your income. Traditional governments would ideally end up selling physical living permits, allowing you to live physically in a given country/area/union, keeping the rest of their tax laws intact for anyone still incorporating or working within the given country. IE, no existing laws really need to change. The price of these permits ends up being a function of location desirability, access to services, and relative guarantees of physical safety. The job of governments becomes to improve each of these variables.
- knowaveragejoe 10y ago
  Bring on the Snow Crash-esque future.
  - sargun 10y ago
    I'm surprised we don't have that happening in places like China or Saudi Arabia. I wonder what the Huawei compound would look like.
  - FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago
    It's already here. Just look @ Snapchat HQ. There are homeless people sleeping literally right outside the main entrance. The epitome of high-tech, low life.
- 10y ago

In 20 years I'm looking forward to buying Amazon Citizenship.

ch4s3 10y ago

Wouldn't it be more of a membership?

sandGorgon 10y ago
yearly reserved citizenship cost .... or spot citizenship (They can kick you out of the country any time when someone is willing to pay more taxes)
- djhworld 10y ago
  > yearly reserved citizenship cost a.k.a Prime membership.

FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago

gcatalfamo 10y ago
Yes, until they send you off to Klendathu for duty...
mtgx 10y ago
More like "Sign-up to be a cog in our Space Mechanical Turk."
antod 10y ago
Now developers can fight bugs literally.

kmfrk 10y ago

Comes free with Prime.

djhworld 10y ago

* Prime members only

bogomipz 10y ago
The wind powered cloud.

dave_sullivan 10y ago

Amazon Citizenship: 1) They setup an offshore corporation for you in a low tax jurisdiction and give you payment processors to take checks and credit cards over the internet. Every few years, they move all of these corps en masse to lower tax jurisdictions, if any. More efficient competition among tax regimes. Amazon will file all pertinent taxes and paperwork and connects to your quickbooks to make that even easier. 2) They provide a phone number to an Amazon Embassy hotline. If you are ever captured by anyone and local authorities cannot help, call this number and Amazon PR will lobby for your rapid release and return to safety through aggressive social media outreach. They will also setup a gofundme page for you to cover legal expenses, etc. 3) Give up your American citizenship (if any) so you no longer have to pay taxes in the US while not living or working in the US. 4) Amazon World Citizen Passport So you can work, maybe get some physical/political help if that's needed, and travel freely. What else is there? The cost? 5% of your income. Traditional governments would ideally end up selling physical living permits, allowing you to live physically in a given country/area/union, keeping the rest of their tax laws intact for anyone still incorporating or working within the given country. IE, no existing laws really need to change. The price of these permits ends up being a function of location desirability, access to services, and relative guarantees of physical safety. The job of governments becomes to improve each of these variables.

knowaveragejoe 10y ago
Bring on the Snow Crash-esque future.
- sargun 10y ago
  I'm surprised we don't have that happening in places like China or Saudi Arabia. I wonder what the Huawei compound would look like.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago
  It's already here. Just look @ Snapchat HQ. There are homeless people sleeping literally right outside the main entrance. The epitome of high-tech, low life.
10y ago