/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>15331271
too tired to write a real response to this now, but i really do have one
basically, what you're describing is an unfair deal; gov't gets to collect much of the profit you earn off of your labour AND benefit from the goods and services and infrastructure that your labour creates AND the labour of everyone you're associated with who you might have positively effected—basically, you contribute positively to the development of a nation—until you get to the point where you want to take charge of your own life and your only legal option is to renounce your citizenship, and even then any land that you buy still doesn't belong to you in the eyes of your former government. it's totally *predicated* on the idea that the country REALLY IS the property of the government because "logic", it's totally predatory, it's wrong, it's unfair, etcetera. like i say—i'd write more, but my body would kick my ass.

>>15331366
if you're really confused, then no—that's communism. it's predicated on slavery; communists generally think that life is a zero-sum game—i.e., that producing wealth *does necessarily* detract from the wealth of someone else. i mean, this is so demonstrably false just from the simple act of observing technical innovation, and noticing that the creation of a better and more advanced tool that puts less strain on its user while helping to produce better desired output *does not* in fact detract from the life of anyone at all. pretty rudimentary way to put it, i know—but, again, i gotta go.