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by robocat 1 day ago
Tax the fuck out of people and do they stop working, or quiet-quit reduce hours/effort?

There are many highly paid essential jobs that society needs. Good luck finding a doctor. How long would transportation or infrastructure last without engineers?

Obviously wouldn't matter for deadwood or bullshit jobs: but we struggle to identify those. You might think Hollywood is unnecessary, but how much of your economy depends on foreign income from unnecessary shit?

No more startups - why bother if there's no reward.

Make Britain great again, by making the US suck!

> after society enabled

You've got causality reversed. Society depends on businesses and workers.

I can't understand how anyone looks at complex systems and thinks "let's just fuck $X". Is it just ignorance?