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> The social contract that citizens sign with their government doesn't guarantee them the right to untraceable global wealth. You have to use the currency of yo
by Teever 5y ago
> The social contract that citizens sign with their government doesn't guarantee them the right to untraceable global wealth. You have to use the currency of your nation to pay taxes and support your society.
Actually up until recently the social contract has anyone could put an anonymous coin into a newspaper box and pick up a news paper to read as much as they want without anyone knowing which articles they read and what they thought about them.
Now we live in a world where the very basic act of consuming media is meticulously analyzed by hundreds of entities and logged for all time and that massive and that obsessive stalking behaviour is making its way into all of our transactions as we switch to digital payments.
This wasn't the social contract I was born into and that goes the same for the current majority. I'm all for regulations that and actual enforcement of existing regulations against wealth people but don't try and tell me that the extension of digital surveillance to everyday little people transactions is anything more than a blatant power grab of unprecedented levels.
- pjkundert 5y agoSure it does. If you're one of the government-connected elites. Unlimited amounts of zero-tax wealth in non-extradition tax-free states. Just look at the Panama Papers. If you're a working-class slob, you get to pay 50%+ tax on every dollar you earn, and then get your after-tax money in your bank account frozen if you dare to contribute to a cause you believe in.