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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @guerratotal 18h \ on: Which is Worse: Taxes or Fiat Money? econ
Taxes, simply put, if you have to pay to maintain something that was never yours... as simple as that, if you stop paying taxes on a piece of land you would lose it, if you stop paying your car you would lose it, your house, etc.
Taxes are things of the devil, something satanic.
What about things that are shared possessions, common possessions. Corporal, physical 'ownership' is just one type.
There is maintenance costs in terms of energy, compute and storage to maintain something even digitally owned by someone.
Running a node is supplying to the commons, and the resource costs are a form of implicit taxation on the participants.
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The crucial difference is who defines and controls that “contribution.”
Voluntary cooperation will never be a “tax.”
When I talk about taxes as something satanic, I mean a coercive system where a central authority takes what's yours by force, under threat and punishment, even if you never asked for its “services.” That's not cooperation. That's institutionalized violence.
Commons can exist perfectly well without coercion.
Common property can be managed by free agreements, private pacts, nodes, local communities.
The energy, storage, or maintenance costs you mention are voluntarily borne by those who participate. No one points a gun at you to make you run a node.
Taxes don't work that way.
They're not optional.
You can't say "I don't want to" without losing freedom or property.
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