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Most places inside the US allow you to live a comfy life with 100k/year too. No need to be in Silicon Valley.
Yes but being American he will be double taxed living outside of the US.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
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It's really incredible how much the hatred for 'socialism' goes in certain circles.
I am not hating on socialism. It has it's merits like providing healthcare if properly implemented but having excessive permits and licence is one of the facets of socialism. Socialism is not the perfect system.
I hit $500/yr on Patreon this week for my open source work! :) Nice work, I should think about having paid only videos as well, I believe I can do that pretty easily on Patreon. Good tips in here.
Do calling it "work" it is too little. Won't pay the time spent on a job.
At the same time it is an amount of money, causing responsibility. Giving the feeling that one has to return something for it ...
So how does at affect your fun-level?
Reading these makes me sad about the law in my country, Finland. The lowest tier of OP ($7 for no reward) would be illegal here. We have a law called "Money Collection act", which states that to gather donations (i.e. payments with nothing in return), you have to get a permit. This permit costs money, is not given to individuals, and is given only for non-profit activities. So this means that if you see a donation/sp…
Reading these makes me sad about the law in my country, Finland. The lowest tier of OP ($7 for no reward) would be illegal here. We have a law called "Money Collection act", which states that to gather donations (i.e. payments with nothing in return), you have to get a permit. This permit costs money, is not given to individuals, and is given only for non-profit activities. So this means that if you see a donation/sp…
It's so much easier in the US. If you're an individual it's going to be taxable income, but there's no up-front paperwork to do (for that matter, you don't have to "set up" a sole proprietorship here either -- that's just what the tax code calls "some rando doing business by themself"). I've done contract work for years, have a bit of my income coming in through GitHub sponsors now.
Now, if we could only get health care covered for folks who don't have an employer...
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> I host a free project myself and I've had to set up a business (sole proprietorship) and sell things in order to get money for server costs.
What's your side project? Speaking of Sandstorm, I'm wondering if it might be relevant; dealing with the problem of developers needing to monetize things in order to cover hosting costs was one of the motivations for the project:
https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re...
Reading these makes me sad about the law in my country, Finland. The lowest tier of OP ($7 for no reward) would be illegal here. We have a law called "Money Collection act", which states that to gather donations (i.e. payments with nothing in return), you have to get a permit. This permit costs money, is not given to individuals, and is given only for non-profit activities. So this means that if you see a donation/sp…
If you're not allowed to sell copyright licenses in Finland, then your whole software business is screwed.
Reading these makes me sad about the law in my country, Finland. The lowest tier of OP ($7 for no reward) would be illegal here. We have a law called "Money Collection act", which states that to gather donations (i.e. payments with nothing in return), you have to get a permit. This permit costs money, is not given to individuals, and is given only for non-profit activities. So this means that if you see a donation/sp…
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Donation regulation is not a 'socialist' policy, and at a stretch, you could only say it's simply a policy which happens to be implemented in a capitalist social democratic country, in this case Finland.
I hit $500/yr on Patreon this week for my open source work! :) Nice work, I should think about having paid only videos as well, I believe I can do that pretty easily on Patreon. Good tips in here.
I for myself, coming from a privileged situation wonder if 500$/yr would be worth it for me. Do calling it "work" it is too little. Won't pay the time spent on a job. At the same time it is an amount of money, causing responsibility. Giving the feeling that one has to return something for it ... So how does at affect your fun-level?
If anything the fun-level has gone way up because a community has formed around one of my projects, which has been great.
Step 1: create a repo with 4K stars...