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In this blog (which is hosted on the page of your business), you're equating taxes to theft. Which in my mind is a very weird look for someone offering any kind

by querez 5y ago

In this blog (which is hosted on the page of your business), you're equating taxes to theft. Which in my mind is a very weird look for someone offering any kind of non-shady business. Especially in a SaaS (which, like taxes, are something you pay for so someone else can provide a service you care for but are unable/unwilling to provide yourself).

ezekg 5y ago
It's a joke. I understand politics are at an all time high for polarization, but I think people need to lighten up.
- querez 5y ago
  I understand that it was meant as a joke. I'm just saying that it might come across as a very unprofessional one to some people (it certainly did so to me).
- slothtrop 5y ago
  I read it thinking you were completely serious fwiw. I can see the angle that it could deter people, but that is probably overstated. At any rate, being careful about online presence is advice anyone should heed.
antonzabirko 5y ago
Taxes ARE theft, they get completely misappropriated. The 25% that goes back in the pockets of businesses is essentially stolen.
dang 5y ago
I suspect that this is one of those areas where cross-national/regional/cultural mismatches are having an effect. The audience here is distributed all over the world, and what would be taken as an obvious mild joke in one region can land as a serious provocation in another. This happens all the time, and unfortunately it's largely unrecognized. If we were together in person, these differences would be apparent and people would automatically modulate for them. But all we have on this forum are little text blobs which don't come with any of that metadata. I think this is probably the biggest source of conflict and misunderstanding on HN; certainly one of them. Edit: there's another clear example of this in another part of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614998. That was a rare case of people actually figuring out the mismatch.

by querez 5y ago

ezekg 5y ago

It's a joke. I understand politics are at an all time high for polarization, but I think people need to lighten up.

querez 5y ago
I understand that it was meant as a joke. I'm just saying that it might come across as a very unprofessional one to some people (it certainly did so to me).
slothtrop 5y ago
I read it thinking you were completely serious fwiw. I can see the angle that it could deter people, but that is probably overstated. At any rate, being careful about online presence is advice anyone should heed.

antonzabirko 5y ago

Taxes ARE theft, they get completely misappropriated. The 25% that goes back in the pockets of businesses is essentially stolen.

dang 5y ago

I suspect that this is one of those areas where cross-national/regional/cultural mismatches are having an effect. The audience here is distributed all over the world, and what would be taken as an obvious mild joke in one region can land as a serious provocation in another. This happens all the time, and unfortunately it's largely unrecognized. If we were together in person, these differences would be apparent and people would automatically modulate for them. But all we have on this forum are little text blobs which don't come with any of that metadata. I think this is probably the biggest source of conflict and misunderstanding on HN; certainly one of them. Edit: there's another clear example of this in another part of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614998. That was a rare case of people actually figuring out the mismatch.