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Senior Dev πŸ¦€ Computer Science maximalist πŸ‘Ύ Also I like food and art. a bit excited about nostr:npub18qh4n5qqhsg2az2lcahgdnc5qg35y644dv5vt7mpjkx7wwk5hdaqpwrhe5

I had a thought the other day...

Governments get involved in all the financial transactions in order to tax them. Your company makes money, it gets taxed. You get paid a salary from the remainder, it gets taxed again. You spend it on something, it gets taxed again. That company takes it in and it gets taxed again. Over and over, tax after tax after tax. And all of this requires complete loss of privacy, they have to know all of your transactions so they can tax them accordingly, and the accounting and compliance costs spawn a huge financial industry which is actually.... entirely unnecessary.

Instead, all this loss of privacy, all this compliance cost, all the tedious filling out of tax forms where you aren't sure if you are doing it right and they hope you do it wrong so they can also collect fines and interest... the whole thing could go away.

And I'm not talking about anarchy. I'm talking about a funded government that doesn't need to collect taxes.

Just use inflation: The central bank prints 3% more money each year and gives it to the government.

Now before you all yell at me about how inflation is a horrible thing... this is a compromise. It is far better than the invasive tax systems we have today, and if the amount of money government gets is fixed by a constitution, and the fiat system (there would still be one) didn't expand via fractional reserve lending but only by this predictable monetary inflation, it strongly prevents government overgrowth, and also moderates boom-bust interest rate cycles, and still stimulates economic activity because the currency continues to lose value.

This is just the start of a crazy thought. I haven't thought it through deeply. But I do really like getting rid of the invasive tax compliance back-monkey.

I like your idea, but I think most governments don't because:

1) through the tax system they get to spy on what people are doing and who is getting rich and powerful.

2) part of them taxing you is actually not that they need your money as much as it's them wanting you to stay poor enough that you need an income and hence have to stay in their rat race.

nice webshop for freedom tech merch

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and many more discussing delete functionalities in various threads.

I'll be touching this topic as well in my #nostriga talk.

Perhaps it'd be worth doing an informal in person meetup. Or, for Nostriga panel organizers to include as a topic πŸ€™

*proposed talk cough cough

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Last days I've seen

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and many more discussing delete functionalities in various threads.

I'll be touching this topic as well in my #nostriga talk.

Perhaps it'd be worth doing an informal in person meetup. Or, for Nostriga panel organizers to include as a topic πŸ€™

Yeah looks like you and your new partner have different strengths and weaknesses.

You should complement each other well.

Happy to hear that! I just woke up – had no chance πŸ˜„

If you git push'ed it to a public repo you should create a new keyset and post the new npub in a nostr note on your old profile for your followers to find (probably asap).

Chicken curry w. goat cheese & cashu nuts

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Haven't done a chicken curry for a while. Today I mashed together what I could find in the kitchen.

It went really well, so here's a note to future self and for you home cookers.

Per serving:

1 good piece of leftover chicken

1/2 onion

1 clove garlic

1 dash of chicken broth

1 tbsp of ghee

1 tbsp of olive oil

1-2 tbsp of curry

3 tbsp goat cheese

Golden raisins

Cashew nuts

Salt + pepper

Served with jasmine rice

Heat chicken in a pot. Add chopped onion and ghee, keep heat low. Add curry.

When onion goldens add olive oil and chopped garlic. Then add chicken broth.

When boiling 5 min. add goat cheese and stir carefully not to get the cheese stuck to the pot.

When cheese has melted into the sauce add salt + pepper to taste. Add cashew nuts and raisins and serve on rice.

Bon apetit!

#foodstr

#recipe

Good point - you should go to Nostriga and do a presentation for me! 😏

TIL there's an ear in hear

touch sand

#nature

My dystopian views on big corps ease a bit when they choose to enrich the world like this

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