• olutukko@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    tax returns are the most backwards shit that a first world country can have. seriously usa how can you live with it?

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      8 months ago

      It’s kind of wild that 10,000 years ago someone made a decision to stick to one spot and just grow their own food and that started a string of decisions that lead directly to filling a tax return and banks.

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        8 months ago

        One dude was starving and lied to people with food that he could talk to God and god said to give food away for free.

        Next thing you know, crusades.

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      8 months ago

      Oh, easy: we’re four third-world countries in a trenchcoat.

      Plus California.