yes, taxes are taken or you are just freeloading off society that pays the way for you.

Stop being a socialist, unless you want government to print the money to pay for the fuel that runs the rescue helicopters?

Thank fuck I didn't take a social sciences degree, seems like you went in that direction though.

dude, wake up. You live in some fantasy world in your head that "government" does nothing.

You either need to travel more or go to some competent school that will teach you these things. You're not going to learn it here.

The Norwegian exit tax is a tax imposed on individuals who move out of Norway and own shares or other financial assets with unrealized capital gains. If a person has held tax residency in Norway for at least five of the past ten years before moving, they are subject to this tax.

When leaving, Norway taxes the unrealized gains on these assets as though they were sold at the time of departure, meaning they must pay tax on the hypothetical profit, even though they haven’t actually sold anything. However, there’s often a deferral option, allowing payment to be postponed under specific conditions. The exit tax is designed to prevent tax avoidance by taxing gains that would otherwise escape Norwegian tax jurisdiction.

yep, i'm a copper and optic fiber maxi, for a reason

there is a great little display in an antique shop window of an old school telephone, and someone put a little sign on it saying "we were more free when our phones were tethered" or something along these lines... words to live by

i'm not that worried about it though... i reckon that if we don't see one incident of massive outage of wireless radios from a solar flare in the next two years we definitely will see one in 11 years time... and once half the planet's mobile and wireless networks all go down because of being fused by too much radiation coming from the sun it's gonna change everything

but i'm planning to build myself a house that is radio free and uses optic fibres all through it where possible, and shielded by tin radiation shielding, because it's going to be bad not just for our electrical and electronic devices, it's going to be bad for us to be outside for long periods of time at some point in the next 30 years, and i'll have my shelter all ready to go

lol still worrying about a vaccine that ended a global pandemic or?

Your entire post reads like you're racist. Did I misinterpret that?

I don't care about Vivek's skin color either way.

right, cause that's the dream.

If you look at my profile picture, you'll understand where I come from and my stance on the whole thing.

Unfortunately, in 2024, we don't live in that world anymore. We're global. We have import and export duties, global commodity pricing, hedged futures and all sorts of tomfoolery that explicitly connects the human capital to an enslaved system.

"Government can be in many forms." not sure what you mean by this but okay, i hear your point.

You can't have it both ways. You either have complete freedom, which includes autonomy, self sovereignty and self determination. Or you give these up, in any measure, to others - as a means of governance.

You give up your freedoms of self protection and get a number you can call instead. You pay taxes so that you can have public services available to you that you wouldn't have i.e. fire departments or parks or roads connecting your cities together. It's a give and take of 'freedoms' in a contract you make with the state.

There's so many interesting case studies, from the current wars in Donbas and Palestine to the disasters in North Carolina and elsewhere. Even Bitcoin has a defining self-sovereignty factor to it, hell it's built INTO the original protocol itself.

At the end of the day, you need government to handle things so you can focus on other things.

bro you're literally confusing nation states here "We want states that coincide with culture and history of people"

State and government is implicitly intertwined, whether the culture and history defines the state, or the state defines the culture and the history.

A nation state could be as small as the Vatican or as insignificant as Palestine.

The Norwegian tax system feels like a maze designed to drain ambition. It doesn’t just punish hard work and innovation—it traps us with exit taxes, making it nearly impossible to move forward or even step away.

I thought you wanted independence, self sovereignty and less government involvement?

Don't complain when your own your own, here in South Africa, we've always made a plan, because we know government won't help.

Maybe this is why I'm having a hard time understanding the complaints.

Would you have not helped if government stepped in with the 4 days? I mean, deployment is stepping in, but yeah

Thanks, you too! I'm not American so I can't vote. I just find it fascinating to watch the psychology behind it all and understand your positions.

I don't envy you guys for having to choose between what I see as two rather disappointing options. I did like Vivek or Kennedy so much more. Don't know what has to happen to get people like those in the right positions.

Nice I have zero