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And I'm not going back, either. Reckon I can slowly liquidate assets for as long as I have left to live. To hell with all this shit, my farm is enough.
by theodric 3mo ago
And I'm not going back, either. Reckon I can slowly liquidate assets for as long as I have left to live. To hell with all this shit, my farm is enough.
- sph 3mo agoI’m doing the same, and currently in the process of buying said farm.
- woah 3mo agoMan rebels against capitalist system by living off of proceeds of ownership shares of capitalist system
- evdubs 3mo agoLaborer rebels against capitalist system by directly enjoying the fruits of his own labor.
- mothballed 3mo agoThe amount you can capture by directly enjoying it is crazy. You get double taxed on your labor. Once when you earn it, another when you spend it, and then the people you pay get taxed yet again on that! Plus their regulatory costs of licensing, insurance, property taxes, compliance, the cut of the shareholders/owners. If you just do it yourself... there is no one to tax or take anything off the top. It often ends up you double your "income" from your work or better.
- mc32 3mo agoWell, things don’t just appear from thin air. Someone has to work. Foraging isn’t much of an option in non tropical regions.
- stanleykm 3mo agook but systems that are more favorable to workers are possible
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- fundad 3mo agoMan didn't say capitalist system. If anything, he's rebelling against what looks more like a centrally-planned economy than capitalism.
- FridgeSeal 3mo agoWhat kind of silly take is this? “You deserve to starve instead!!” - is this really the position you want to argue?
- theodric 3mo agoIf you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
- SlightlyLeftPad 3mo agoBut you must pay tribute in the form of thousands of dollars in property taxes. Your first born child may also be acceptable.
- theodric 3mo ago€98/yr Not everywhere is America, fellow hacker.
- amatecha 3mo agoWhoa nice, that's nuts. Curious what country if you don't mind sharing! No worries if not
- CalRobert 3mo agoNo idea where they are but when I had a very cheap house in Ireland the property taxes were only a bit over €100 per year.
- SlightlyLeftPad 3mo agoTo be fair, we were talking about Capitalism. There are few places more capitalistic than America currently. But wow, 98€ is about how much it takes for me to take my family out to lunch at a fast food restaurant.
- 8note 3mo agochina being the obvious example? the US seems much more speculation and leverage based, rather than capital being used by private owners to apply labour to to make useful goods
- mothballed 3mo agoAmerica has $0 property taxes in unincorporated Alaska, and possibly a few other places. The rates are determined locally. I pay very little but we also have no public roads and basically no fire or police -- you can pretty much pick what property tax rate you want if you're a little bit mobile.