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The weight of my t-shirt upon my shoulders is also technically a burden. Who cares. Quantitative distinctions matter, binary burden/non-burden thinking is not
by Ericson2314 3y ago
The weight of my t-shirt upon my shoulders is also technically a burden. Who cares.
Quantitative distinctions matter, binary burden/non-burden thinking is not helpful.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agounless the weight of your t-shirt is a cause for great worry, it's not a burden.
- sethammons 3y agoI pay $500/mo in property tax. If I were to watch kids to pay my rent to the government, it would take at least one full time kid. That is residential; I assume commercial tax rate would be higher. And that one kid may represent 10-25% of a caregiver's capacity.
- Ericson2314 3y agoOnce we improve the tax to be a land value tax, and get rid of the stupid blockers of development, you can convert your house into an apartment and pay way less tax. If you are a tenant in cross-subsidized apartment building, it is really easy to work as a building-wide childcare. You want to live in as big a building as possible to have as much addressable market as possible. (Basically you might not be the best nanny but you want as many kids as ludicrously conveniently nearby as possible.)