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• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can thank the Prussians and Frederick the Great for those taxes. They were the first to institute a complete national census (at least the first in the more modern era, the Romans may have done complete censuses,) to better tax the population to pay for their war machine.

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• CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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  • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hear the fjords are very nice though. Just don’t forget your towel

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Personally, I wouldn’t be a fan of being dead before the age of 12, but I guess that’s just me.

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IDK, I quite like the things that are being done with taxes, many of which ensure I have water, electricity, social security, and health care.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    War, death, destruction. Police states. Corrupt politicians. Fuck taxes.

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, you’re mad at the gross inequities of the system, not at the advancement. There is no mythical perfect past, it never existed. That’s just nostalgia with a twist. People in every age had escapist fantasy. There is a brighter future, but it requires you to make it happen (and yes, that you includes me)

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Even if it wasn’t perfect, there is legitimate appeal in a past where our lives were not dictated by abstract bureaucratic systems and better resembled our natural environment. We didn’t evolve to live this way and the only way we can is by contorting our minds into deeply uncomfortable arrangements and constraining our actions to what is demanded.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s also the tax filing companies’ lobbying.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Australian Aboriginal civilisation did. It worked well for them for some 40,000 years, until people who discovered filing taxes (and writing, and building surpluses that could be spent on employing specialists, developing technologies including transport, large-scale agriculture and warfare) came along and essentially subjugated them.

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes in manga a person will be in an underdeveloped fantasy world and start introducing concepts like banks, money lending and lottery tickets. I can’t help but yell at them to stop ruining this perfectly good fantasy world. Also, a lot of them can’t wait to recreate guns. Absolute idiots.

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Ah, nothing like serfdom to put the mind at ease!”

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a story on royalroad called Emergence, about a victorian-ish era dude who ends up shipwrecked alone on an island filled with dragons: I love that the story treats penicillin as one of the most powerful things he has access to, along with stuff like the radio.
    Like yeah sure guns are scary, but so are massive claws. The ability to cure what has hitherto been utterly untreatable guaranteed wasting death, however? Basically the power of a god.

    Another story, Delve, is about a guy being isekai’d into stock fantasy world with DnD-esque mechanics and going “well that’s fucking terrifying, i’m starting a union and inventing OSHA”.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Capitalist realism. The fantasy is winning capitalism, and the only way to win it is to invent it first.

    I like Reincarnated as a Slime, cause community building is first before all else (it does mean meetings, cause that’s what building community looks like)

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Slime is my second favorite isekai because of that. Dude introduces festivals instead of banks, Rimuru for president! (the slice of life spin-off is awesome btw)

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  • Jimbo@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This gives me the anger

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It all started with settled society. Some of the earliest Sumerian tablets record what were effectively complaints about feeling unappreciated at work and stuck in debt. I think there was even a drinking song about one of those and a proverb like “I am a stallion tied to a mule”

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