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Really Tired of Subscriptions (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Everything’s a subscription, or wants you to sign up for one. I want off this shitshow please.

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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I disagree, tax is the price you pay for living in a civilization. It pays for infrastructure, social security and more.

Whether the country actually uses it well is another story.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How is that any different than a subscription fee?

    Be it some MMORPG or streaming service... it's still a large number of people putting in money for infrastructure and services and often end up with money being misappropriated against what the people want and someone somewhere making bank off it. Look at all the cancelled shows on Netflix that people loved, or shows that were given the greenlight where people are like 'what the actual fuck' (like that one pedo show)... and then flaunt money to piss of other people like with the writers strike and Netflix posting a 900K a year for some AI developer...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    Taxes were the example of how to leech on the people under the guise of a protection racket. They knew with subscriptions what they were upon creation, a racket without the promise of protection. It’s getting bled by a third party, and now it’s multiple parties all hoping you’ll forget they’re slowly milking you too.

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    • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I mean I don't want my taxes spent on bombing other people, but I also want my roads paved, my meat inspected and my firefighters paid up.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    my meat inspected

    🤨

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    • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yep, you stop paying for taxes for long enough. You'll stop enjoying life.

    Be the change you want to be, go off grid and live off the land without technology, like our hunter gatherer ancestors.

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    • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, without taxes countries would fall apart, so there's that.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Sure. But, to be fair, most if not all are currently huge flaming clown cars heading towards an ecological cliff. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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    • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Here. Take a breath, relax, and have some beans. Welcome to Lemmy.

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    • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's a little funny, but it's better to crowd source a society and pay for things up front than it is to have every single thing be a toll. Could you imagine fire fighters verifying your credit card before they come out?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Why are those the only two options? If we're free to organize ourselves and our communities how we want we could work out all sorts of innovative ways to make life suck less instead of one size fits all. Especially when that one size has a habit of impacting marginalized people more.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I didn't sign up for the free trial! :(

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    • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Right, where's the lifetime purchase option?

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    • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Sick of the microtransactions. And even worse, now it has to be always online...

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Now I understand "taxation is theft" mfers

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    because you got brain damage from how stupid the meme is?

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