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by knorker 1371 days ago
> One thing I don’t understand is the tax implication and where you’re allowed to work from.

You do understand that's basically the entirety of the thing, right?

And the tax and legal liability is NOT just on you, but on your employer too. It's not that they legally have to know where you are as such, nor that they care, but that in order for them to follow laws they have to know which laws apply.

> The physical borders don’t make much sense in a digital world.

Yet that would be hard to argue when you get caught with weed in Saudi Arabia, or when the french police knock on your digital nomad door in south of France.

At some point this becomes like the "sovereign citizen" crowd, and their "your laws don't apply to me" don't tend to work out very well.