Dude, I'm totally with you on the broader point (that things that seem normal today will seem bizarre in the future). However, I note that I didn't refer to HN

Dude, I'm totally with you on the broader point (that things that seem normal today will seem bizarre in the future). However, I note that I didn't refer to HN as one of these "right-wing forums", rather I was speaking about financial news, which I would naively have expected to be more anti-taxation than a forum populated by people working on the fruits of a massive forty year defence project (the Internet/WWW). Like, I personally disagree with you that taxation will be seen in those terms, but given that both of us will (probably) be dead before such a matter compiler exists, it's probably a moot point. And by the way, my comment was not a rant (I don't think I've ever ranted on HN, to be honest, as tone doesn't come through well on the internet). Maybe someday we'll meet in person, and you can actually listen to a rant of mine (normally entertaining, even if you disagree). Anyway, taxation is liberty!