[theodric]

And I'm not going back, either. Reckon I can slowly liquidate assets for as long as I have left to live. To hell with all this shit, my farm is enough.

[sph]

I’m doing the same, and currently in the process of buying said farm.

[woah]

Man rebels against capitalist system by living off of proceeds of ownership shares of capitalist system

[evdubs]

Laborer rebels against capitalist system by directly enjoying the fruits of his own labor.

[mothballed]

The amount you can capture by directly enjoying it is crazy. You get double taxed on your labor. Once when you earn it, another when you spend it, and then the people you pay get taxed yet again on that! Plus their regulatory costs of licensing, insurance, property taxes, compliance, the cut of the shareholders/owners.

If you just do it yourself... there is no one to tax or take anything off the top. It often ends up you double your "income" from your work or better.

[theodric]

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

[mc32]

Well, things don’t just appear from thin air. Someone has to work. Foraging isn’t much of an option in non tropical regions.

[stanleykm]

ok but systems that are more favorable to workers are possible

[fundad]

Man didn't say capitalist system. If anything, he's rebelling against what looks more like a centrally-planned economy than capitalism.

[FridgeSeal]

What kind of silly take is this?

“You deserve to starve instead!!” - is this really the position you want to argue?

[SlightlyLeftPad]

But you must pay tribute in the form of thousands of dollars in property taxes. Your first born child may also be acceptable.

[theodric]

€98/yr

Not everywhere is America, fellow hacker.

[mothballed]

America has $0 property taxes in unincorporated Alaska, and possibly a few other places. The rates are determined locally. I pay very little but we also have no public roads and basically no fire or police -- you can pretty much pick what property tax rate you want if you're a little bit mobile.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

To be fair, we were talking about Capitalism. There are few places more capitalistic than America currently.

But wow, 98€ is about how much it takes for me to take my family out to lunch at a fast food restaurant.

[8note]

china being the obvious example?

the US seems much more speculation and leverage based, rather than capital being used by private owners to apply labour to to make useful goods

[amatecha]

Whoa nice, that's nuts. Curious what country if you don't mind sharing! No worries if not

[CalRobert]

No idea where they are but when I had a very cheap house in Ireland the property taxes were only a bit over €100 per year.