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This is true! I've come across many, many people who buy steam games just because they've pirated them in the past. They don't care about playing them, they're

This is true! I've come across many, many people who buy steam games just because they've pirated them in the past. They don't care about playing them, they're literally just buying them, because they didn't when they played them.

daniel-cussen 5y ago
I feel that drive too, of paying for things that benefit me even when I'm not properly excluded from their use otherwise. Let me give you an example. California. I was given a pretty terrible impression of state workers, government employees generally, for a very long time. And I still hear stories about many of them being really lazy, but that I've actually witnessed firsthand, dude, 5.0000 stars. Let me jog my memory and think when no...but that I can talk about...well the police at least, just awesome police. But that's just what I see with my own eyes, of course you have to take into account news. With police, them earning what they earn just doesn't seem that fucking expensive. The public libraries, just amazing, people don't realize the value of a library because they're everywhere in US and in Latin America they're not as good (fewer, farther between, less resources). There's more examples. So at one point when filling out HR forms I notice the person I'm talking to skipped over two entries filled in by default with 0.00, and I asked what they were. Extra taxes! Do you want to pay extra taxes? Nobody fills them out! I said yes, definitely, and it was great. I felt good knowing I supported the system that supported me, without exclusion. Like everyone says "the government should do this, I want this from the government, I shouldn't have to pay for this myself, my entitlement is not enough." What about, hey let's give the government what it needs on our end, like actually produce the wealth and be tax-docile instead of making it audit us (and let someone else come up with ideas of how to spend it). It goes for everything, I pay even once the horse is out of the barn.
- MrYellowP 5y ago
  What? Your government hates you and doesn't give a fuck about you. They misuse every dollar they get and use whatever means necessary to shove it into the bank accounts of their rich friends. Please correct me if I'm just seriously misunderstanding you. Please! You, for some reason, believe that willfully giving your government even more money is going to actually help you and other people around you. I'm sorry ... what?
  - PlanckMeasure80 5y ago
    Where the heck are you located? Here on/near the East Coast, the poor counties around me have gotten free college for every high schooler with decent grades, the community college continues to expand without raising costs, Medicaid expanded to everyone under a certain income (I’m on it until my new job starts in the Summer, it’s AMAZING. No deductibles and they’ve stuck to it), the roads are continually getting wider, cops all have body cameras which helped the force remove a bad officer, and our metro is adding new stops. Everyone just got free state-of-the-art vaccines, N95s, at-home tests, etc…
  - daniel-cussen 5y ago
    > Your government hates you and doesn't give a fuck about you. They misuse every dollar they get and use whatever means necessary to shove it into the bank accounts of their rich friends. Yeah exactly, that's what I used to believe. Couldn't have put it better myself. And all my sources confirm it, except for all my actual personal experiences. It's an internet versus real life thing. Depends on where you live.

daniel-cussen 5y ago

I feel that drive too, of paying for things that benefit me even when I'm not properly excluded from their use otherwise. Let me give you an example. California. I was given a pretty terrible impression of state workers, government employees generally, for a very long time. And I still hear stories about many of them being really lazy, but that I've actually witnessed firsthand, dude, 5.0000 stars. Let me jog my memory and think when no...but that I can talk about...well the police at least, just awesome police. But that's just what I see with my own eyes, of course you have to take into account news. With police, them earning what they earn just doesn't seem that fucking expensive. The public libraries, just amazing, people don't realize the value of a library because they're everywhere in US and in Latin America they're not as good (fewer, farther between, less resources). There's more examples. So at one point when filling out HR forms I notice the person I'm talking to skipped over two entries filled in by default with 0.00, and I asked what they were. Extra taxes! Do you want to pay extra taxes? Nobody fills them out! I said yes, definitely, and it was great. I felt good knowing I supported the system that supported me, without exclusion. Like everyone says "the government should do this, I want this from the government, I shouldn't have to pay for this myself, my entitlement is not enough." What about, hey let's give the government what it needs on our end, like actually produce the wealth and be tax-docile instead of making it audit us (and let someone else come up with ideas of how to spend it). It goes for everything, I pay even once the horse is out of the barn.

MrYellowP 5y ago
What? Your government hates you and doesn't give a fuck about you. They misuse every dollar they get and use whatever means necessary to shove it into the bank accounts of their rich friends. Please correct me if I'm just seriously misunderstanding you. Please! You, for some reason, believe that willfully giving your government even more money is going to actually help you and other people around you. I'm sorry ... what?
- PlanckMeasure80 5y ago
  Where the heck are you located? Here on/near the East Coast, the poor counties around me have gotten free college for every high schooler with decent grades, the community college continues to expand without raising costs, Medicaid expanded to everyone under a certain income (I’m on it until my new job starts in the Summer, it’s AMAZING. No deductibles and they’ve stuck to it), the roads are continually getting wider, cops all have body cameras which helped the force remove a bad officer, and our metro is adding new stops. Everyone just got free state-of-the-art vaccines, N95s, at-home tests, etc…
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  > Your government hates you and doesn't give a fuck about you. They misuse every dollar they get and use whatever means necessary to shove it into the bank accounts of their rich friends. Yeah exactly, that's what I used to believe. Couldn't have put it better myself. And all my sources confirm it, except for all my actual personal experiences. It's an internet versus real life thing. Depends on where you live.