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Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 20:14:37 JST Fish of Rage

> "people experiencing slavery"

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  narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 20:17:30 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 20:51:32 JST lainy
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  @p @sun shocked that there's no reference at all to this: https://fee.org/articles/the-tale-of-the-slave/
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    The Tale of the Slave
    
    from Robert Nozick
    
    Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you. The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave?
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  p (p@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 20:51:33 JST p
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_slavery
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    Taxation as slavery
    
    Taxation as slavery is the idea that taxation results in an unfree society in which individuals are forced to work to enrich the government and the recipients of largesse, rather than for their own benefit. History Historically, the earliest and most widespread form of taxation was the corvee, which can be traced back to the beginning of civilization. The corvee was state-imposed forced labor on peasants too poor to pay other forms of taxation (labor in ancient Egyptian is a synonym for taxes). While slavery was a part of life in ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean, Rome, and Greece etc, many slaves received wages. For example, in some of the first records of taxation and slavery from over 5000 years, we see evidence that Egyptian Pharaohs only collected 20% tax on grain harvests, and yet the subjects were considered slaves at this high level of taxation, as is recorded in the book of Genesis 41:34-36 "Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. They should collect all the food of these good years that...
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  p (p@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 21:09:48 JST p
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  now just add one level of indirection via "representative" democracy
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