If they can print infinite money, why do we pay taxes?
Control.
Yes, it could be that simple. However, it's an ounce more complicated.
Money has value because of taxes. That's why USD is valuable in the US, and CAD is valuable in Canada.
If you want a productive life, which white people are pretty much required to, then you will need to pay taxes. Even if you were paid in gold you would still owe taxes.. paid in USD. USD is a don't go to jail token. You need a certain amount beyond your expenses to not go to jail if you are going to have any expenses at all (and thus require income).
The taxes give the otherwise worthless unit value. Once it has value they can print any amount of value.
It's easier to think in terms of something you don't work with every day. You don't have an objective view of USD as a physical object because you already inherently think of it as value. If you trained monkeys to give you a token or get hit they will learn to value the token. They'll think of you as benevolent if you give them tokens, especially if it's a different handler that hands them out. With that you could easily get monkeys to exchange fruit they gather for those tokens and even get them hording them beyond their need to pay the abuser. You are just cattle and USD is the little token they are manipulating you with.
The bigger tax on the monkeys is the exchange of fruit, not giving up tokens that have no value. Every time you give up time for money you are paying your larger share of taxes. I don't want to be anti-work because that isn't my values, but yes, work in the system they've set up does have an element of bullshit because you are further contributing value to an otherwise bullshit token used to manipulate you. You are further giving value to what they can print because at the very least it can be used to redirect your labor to benefit whoever the printed money was given to. Work is important at a fundamental level, but wouldn't you know it they would pervert something good like work so you can't do that good without contributing to their evil.
It may sound crazy but I've intentionally reduced my income over it. I'm more interested in value production than notable income. Work is about value production and you can do it in more way than one.
For example for those with kids. If your income is variable like mine and everything you do is for your kids. Will an extra hundred dollars that could be spent on karate practice produce as much value for your kids as spending more time with them? If they are anywhere close to the same ballpark, spend time with your kid. You are producing the same value with less income, and you should be proud of that.
You owe nothing to a system that pays you in jew bucks, and dangles a few valueless pieces of paper in front of you and asks for your life. I luckily have a job where I have control over my hours and had income beyond my needs. So I had the capacity to reduce my hours and find other ways to improve my quality of life beyond dollar figures. I'll work like a dog again when someone offers me bitcoin or gold.
To me it's a moral issue. I don't let someone boss me around just because they have a stack of jew bucks beyond my need for survival. If you want more than the minimum hours I can offer you, you need something less BS than a stack of paper that's part of a system that tries to genocide me. I don't care if people call me an idiot for choosing to be poor. I know what I'm doing is moral.
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