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Wait what? Why? The purpose of having governments isn't to extract money from private activity. The purpose is to enable privacy activity to be efficient by pro
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Wait what? Why? The purpose of having governments isn't to extract money from private activity. The purpose is to enable privacy activity to be efficient by providing a baseline level of services that would be difficult or inefficient to produce privately. Having reliable ID provides benefits to many private individuals and corporations, and their economic activity results in taxes that fund the government (likely far in excess of the costs of providing such an ID service).
- cormacrelf 4y agoI pay the equivalent of USD $420 every ten years to have government-issued ID. Facebook wants to charge me $12 a month, for them to look at this ID once. That is $1440 over 10 years. The two services offered are pretty similar: check it once, issue a stamp of approval, then administer that system over time. Why is Facebook's service 3.5x the price?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> two services offered are pretty similar: check it once, issue a stamp of approval, then administer that system over time One, Facebook is obviously providing you with a service. Two, your solution to not liking the price of something is to tax it? What?
- cormacrelf 4y agoDid you read what I said? I said both of them provided similar services.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> both of them provided similar services Last I checked, the DMV doesn't have a social media arm. You're thinking of identity verification as product. That's obviously not what Facebook is selling.
- saurik 4y agoFacebook isn't charging for their various social media services, they are charging for the ID verification service.
- remus 4y ago> Facebook wants to charge me $12 a month, for them to look at this ID once. Your $12/month also covers access to a support service. I guess that's what you're actually paying for.
- rcoveson 4y agoThis is a joke, right? Sure the DMV/DLD sucks, but is a Facebook support line to some minimum wage call center really going to suck less?