0 sats \ 0 replies \ @handsome_latino 11 May 2022 \ on: Food for tought: if you need to pay taxes to keep your things, are they really yours? bitcoin
This may be unpopular but there is one thing that doesn't pay tax (and, which cannot be confiscated), but it's especially valuable for us who have very few assets:
Your Knowledge
And I don't mean your private keys.
First story, a man who fled communist China with absolutely nothing but his brains and his family, including his newborn son. He luckily knew English, and that let him land a job at a newspaper agency. Life was extremely tough, he held two jobs, but he made it through. That man was my grandfather.
The second, is a friend's father, who fled El Salvador when things were terribly bad. He was a doctor there, a good one (whom for his reputation started getting chased by the government -- governments often try to censor smart people first). He fled, arrived at a new country only to realize his education and diploma was worth nothing. He didn't give up, went back to school, got a medical degree (probably took him extra 8 years), and became a doctor again. He went on to be a prominent director for decades.
I know, if you lose your mind or a car hits you while you cross the road, you're done for. But other assets might be taken from you or lost anyway.
If you lose your mind whether you have a shitload of assets/money or not, probably won't make much difference. As an example, my grandma has had dementia for about 30 years now (she's +100 years old). Money thrown at the problem hasn't helped her at all.