• @saegiru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34•2 years ago

    This doesn’t quite work because subscriptions are voluntary and taxes are anything but.

    For non rich people I mean.

  • @algalorp@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    Nah, its not free, all those years of time you lost with your parents while they worked was the trade as a child. Becoming a latch-key kid and the life-long childhood trauma of that is the trade.

  • Venator
    7•2 years ago

    Too bad you can’t move to another country and have a second childhood 😢

  • Metaright
    5•2 years ago

    And just like paid subscriptions, all of the money (in the US, anyway) goes to the rich people in charge.

  • Nepenthe
    2•2 years ago

    I can’t tell whether we’re just pretending for the joke that that’s anything like what taxes do, or if we’re genuinely just nodding and going with that, and that makes me depressed

      • Nepenthe
        1•2 years ago

        • If I stop paying taxes, they won’t remove me from the country, for starters. If I steal enough from them, they may make double-sure I remain a customer for the next several years.

        • If I make little to nothing and can’t afford a subscription taxes, they pay me.

        • Their free version works pretty much just like their paid version. People who pay wish they didn’t and people who don’t would kill for the opportunity.

        • Not everyone gets the same experience, even among people in the same bracket. (Alabama roads)

        • The government doesn’t mind if I share my citizenship, as long as I say I really like that person.

        • Even if they’re not supposed to be using the service country, extra sneaky ones still pay taxes, sometimes in the hopes of being legally permitted to continue paying.