If you were triggered by my post about nationalism/statism being a form of Stockholm syndrome, watch this.
And if you still want to be a statist after watching it, just unfollow me 🤷♂️
https://video.nostr.build/4ea168f6cf963bed49cfad736cb12960fb890f66f2cbde2c0f3a7e9117455b1b.mp4
I think taxes exist for a reason and exist for a reason just how governments exist but like everything, it gets corrupted because of humans. That doesn’t mean it’s not necessary for society. I think the topic is more nuanced.
FIAT coupled with taxes is straight up robbery.
You watched that entire video and this was the conclusion you came up with?
Is donating theft?
Donating is voluntary and consensual. No one is threatening to kill you or lock you in a cage if you don’t donate. So it isn’t theft.
Fantastic, say you live in a utopian community where we are on the bitcoin standard and almost everyone provides value for sats. In this society there are those who can’t provide any value to the community at all and are suffering. How do they survive?
I don’t know. They could get a job and provide value. They could ask for money from people. They could go to voluntary humanitarian services like a church that feeds the homeless.
Yeah but you’re still talking about someone who could provide value and the solution can’t be that they turn into a beggar.
This is just a basic example. Im open to accepting maybe taxes are theft but logically it makes no sense. How can you have a utopian society where you no solutions for your weakest links.
I never said we would have a utopian society
What is the difference between theft and taxes?
You Dictating that they can't provide value is YOUR opinion. In a society in which you espoused no individual is valueless. Everyone can do something for someone else at anytime. Also in this said society every individual has vastly much more wealth as there is no state to coercivly extract nonsensical bullshit. So each had more to give and each family is much more wealthy in aggregate with the abilty to provide on their own to those that you believe are valueless.
What is the difference between "taxes" and "theft?"
