• DrPop@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    To owe that much you’d be making close to 300k in the US for federal taxes. You’ll be fine.

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    We live in an era of abundance but a tiny minority of ultra wealthy villains cannot stand resources being shared fairly if it means they lose their relative wealth, and the vast majority are coming to realize they can (violently or not) seize the means of production and sentence a dozen of these fuckers to death along with anyone dumb enough to defend them during this final stretch of late stage capitalism.

    It’s going to take a few years of turmoil and effort, but a few brave people here and there will be enough to bust their bunkers and drain their accounts to pay for the resources they’ve managed to steal from public coffers over the last decade. There won’t be justice because laws aren’t going to apply, only fury and retribution as the majority do not show the same mercy afforded to the Nazis during the Nuremberg trials.

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      You can deduct expenses for each unga bunga as long as you were thinking about work at the time

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    Human population grew past the point where direct individual mutual help was a sustainable way of keeping social cohesion.

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      Population size isn’t the issue. Population mobility is the issue. In a globalised world where you can more or less easily cross whole continents and with a society that requires you to regularly move across the country for “new jobs” or whatever, you inevitably are less connected to the thousand people in your birth village.

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        Even in one location it’s a big issue. When even a small city has more than 10k people, the people with resources might not personally know those who don’t have them.

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          You don’t need to personally know them. But having to rely on local structures does wonders. If people had to walk or maybe bicycle to the nearest supermarket or couldn’t commute 40km in half an hour, I’m sure the local structures would look very different. There have always been markets.

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      … by 1500 BC (look up the battle of Megiddo between Egypt and Kadesh).

      I’d say any warfare is an indicator of the population being too big for mutual aid to provide social cohesion.