MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
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Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#2I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#3I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
It’s possible that this game is just filling out numbers in the PDF for you and you can fill out your personal info manually, sign it, and mail it in. If it’s trying to do E-file for you, then yeah I would be scared.
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#4I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
I don’t know that the artists actually want people to file their taxes in the game, but for the critique to land you do actually need to be able to use it to file. That means asking for an SSN.
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#5I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#6I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
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Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#7First reaction:
This is beautifully deranged.
> Suitable for singles without dependents
Perfect.
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Second reaction:
It'd be cooler if this "art collective" were a little less corporate though. Collaborations with Nike and Patek Philippe? A lot of their work looks like it's about milking money from celebrities. Like it's the "I am rich" app, but in sneaker form. Was hoping for something a little more organic.
I guess that's exactly how this stuff works. It's playful with a little edge but not too much -- perfectly calibrated.
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#8I mean surely the art collective behind wacky shoes and WD-40 cologne will make sure my SSN and other personal information is safe once I put it into the game? Surely.
I think it's just a local game, it prepares a return but doesn't file it. Doesn't seem like there's much danger.
Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#9> Hi there! Iris here~
> It’s always been a dream of mine to meet that special someone…and file their tax return. Join me and we’ll search for deductions while searching for love!
> But be careful! We’re not alone. Corporate tax filing services like TurboTax are (by dint of extensive lobbying) predatory, parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordinary people. They feed us their poison so that we buy their medicine!
> Most wealthy countries make tax filing free, if the burden of preparation is even passed along to individuals at all. TurboTax actively seeks to backdoor the regulatory structure that could otherwise seek to rein it in. And it works! The villainous corporation that controls the government from the shadows is a sadly mundane reality. It’s the most boring industry imaginable.
> TurboTax, per its own internal documents, is built on the “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” that ordinary people have about their taxes. Against this, we pit free software instead built on parasocial desire for intimacy and benign horniness! If TurboTax is Dark UI, TH3K is Pink UI, the nightcore of tax software.
> Videogames are, at the end of the day, pieces of software–ontologically akin to Microsoft Word. All of TurboTax’s cutesy loading animations are fake graphics; TH3K simply makes the fiction the point. For some reason the game-to-real-life interface has tended to remain in the purview of corporate metaverse fictions. TH3K is a dongle that adapts from a visual novel to the IRS.
> Come on, let’s get started! I can already tell I’m going to like you ♥ And remember, ~~if you die in the game you die in real life~~ if you file your taxes in the game, you file your taxes in real life.
( from https://taxheaven3000.com )
Re: MSCHF’s 'Tax Heaven 3000' Is a Dating Simulator That Also Files Your Taxes
#10First reaction: This is beautifully deranged. > Suitable for singles without dependents Perfect. ... Second reaction: It'd be cooler if this "art collective" were a little less corporate though. Collaborations with Nike and Patek Philippe? A lot of their work looks like it's about milking money from celebrities. Like it's the "I am rich" app, but in sneaker form. Was hoping for something a little more organic. I gues…
Their "collab" with nike, was one way (nike wasn't in on it). They had to destroy the shoes they created by order of the courts.