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the point is that all the things that commenter listed are enabled by the taxes we pay - it's the price we pay for living in a civilized society. Saying that th
by JackYoustra 2y ago
the point is that all the things that commenter listed are enabled by the taxes we pay - it's the price we pay for living in a civilized society. Saying that they don't directly pay it misses the forest for the trees: we decide to pay taxes for things in a system that overall produces these outcomes, treating them separately is to split parts of a coevolved system
- Henchman21 2y agoCivilized society doesn’t require a layer of working poor at the bottom to function. That is what I am a part of: the great mass of unfulfilled workers with no choices, no chance for advancement. I’m a blue collar worker right on the edge of high end white collar work. I see on a daily basis that which I can never possess. The system produces these outcomes because that is the desired design goal of the system. If this is “civilization” I want no part of it. But then, we don’t get that choice anymore do we? Where could I go on Earth to escape my fate? Because all I see is my own death is the only escape
- JackYoustra 2y agousually you can go to some rural part of the country and grow your own food and no one will really care. You'll have to pay your BLM grazing fees and maybe some taxes but that honestly isn't that much compared to even solely military protection