[ForHackernews]

If you're willing to commit fraud anyway, just run a crypto scam. The payout is a lot higher, and it will use the white collar tech skills you already have rather than forcing you to learn a trade.

[indoordin0saur]

But then you have to feel bad that you're not contributing to society. The plumber is doing far more for society than any crypto con-artist is.

[altruios]

I mean, or you could help build houses instead of drain electricity. One is clearly less lazy and helping humanity more.

[Larrikin]

Not paying taxes is a drain on society

[altruios]

It's for certain a drain on the military industrial complex, but building houses while not supporting the current regime is certainly better than draining a bunch electricity to enrich only yourself and paying money to a bunch of authoritarian wannabe's.

I am impressed with your compression of the entirety of this conversation down to two values of right/wrong. /s

[Larrikin]

You compressed all taxes down to paying for the war in Iran