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Even if the laws are stupid, the killer feature you are describing is called crime.

Yes and we need tools to route around stupidity to keep checks and balances on stupidity. Otherwise locked-in stupidity can get even more stupid and that’s how suffering occur at scale.

If you don't like the law, lobby politicians to change it.

You don't get to decide that speed limits are stupid and go 100. You don't get to decide that taxes are stupid and not pay them. You don't get to decide that rules against murder are stupid and ignore them.

Wait, why didn't you use these examples:

> You don't get to decide what to put into your body and smoke weed. You don't get to make a choice about your pregnancy and have an abortion. You don't get to not be a chattel slave in 1840.

> If you don't like the law, lobby politicians to change it.

Some laws are unjust and it's your duty as a human being with free will to disobey them.

Drop the persecution complex. You're being asked to pay taxes, not commit genocide.

If I pay taxes I can't pay wages.

If you can't afford to:

* pay a living wage

* pay your taxes

* comply with health, safety, and employment regulations

* comply with all the other laws (this is a crypto thread, so that includes weapons laws, securities laws, international sanctions, and so many more)

Then you don't have a valid business. You have no inherent right to run whatever business you think you want to.

Also, to your immediate claim, I do not believe you.

What I can't afford is to deal with a regressive tax legislation [], while trying to get US currency in the black market [2] to save and pay for imported goods and without a line of credit because the rate is ~190% and inflation ~130% [3].

I do pay my taxes, also think high worth individuals should be subject of taxation, but your rigid framework leaves out many people that use crypto as their only way to get paid and/or save money because traditional banking system is broken in their countries.

2. https://brazilian.report/liveblog/latam/2023/10/10/dollar-10...

3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-12/argentina...

"amassing currency to purchase imported goods without a line of credit" is not a human right.

I'm sad that tariffs mean I can't bring in dirt cheap liquor from the Caribbean to sell for massive profits but that's not an excuse to not pay my taxes.

I disagree, it is if you need the goods to buy supplies for you to work.

If I need syringes to work, national syringes costs 3 usd a pack (and they are out of stock) and I can get the same pack for 85 cents in Chile, I'll exchange pesos crocante for dolar blue, cross the border to Chile and get them there.

I wouldn't call it human right, but the idea of amass currency to buy goods seems pretty essential for our modern life.

Although it's sad that tariffs make selling cheap liquor unprofitable in your country, I think we're thinking about different scales of income.

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