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He or she did indeed do that. I find the constant ranting about taxation here very trying, I frequent many financial and more "right-wing" forums, but HN is the only place I commonly see the taxation is theft argument made seriously on a regular basis. I'd love to know why that is, but it appears to be one of life's great mysteries. My mother's advice on this still stays with me: never look at your gross pay, and you…
You might want to consider reading my reply before you start spouting nonsense about right-wing forums , it might answer your question about why I chose taxation as an example of something which is seen as normal in current society but might be seen in a totally different light in some imaginary future society. It might help you understand that your rant is misplaced since my comparison only works because taxation is…
However, I note that I didn't refer to HN as one of these "right-wing forums", rather I was speaking about financial news, which I would naively have expected to be more anti-taxation than a forum populated by people working on the fruits of a massive forty year defence project (the Internet/WWW).
Like, I personally disagree with you that taxation will be seen in those terms, but given that both of us will (probably) be dead before such a matter compiler exists, it's probably a moot point.
And by the way, my comment was not a rant (I don't think I've ever ranted on HN, to be honest, as tone doesn't come through well on the internet).
Maybe someday we'll meet in person, and you can actually listen to a rant of mine (normally entertaining, even if you disagree).
Anyway, taxation is liberty!