Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by sdf4j on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:11AM
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Even when I said "we are all doing it" you choose to assume I was too firstworldly to have an opinion. Trust me, I know very well how we Argentinians use crypto. The country monetary policy is a mess and we don't like to pay taxes. You can tell yourself whatever heroic story helps you cope with the cognitive dissonance, I'll still find it amusing.
Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by int_19h on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:56AM
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The parent poster made that assumption, not me.
In any case, not paying taxes can be a perfectly legitimate and moral reason - it all depends on what those taxes are actually used for.
Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
by notch656a on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:55AM
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Why does it matter what the taxes are used for? Somebody with a gun says you need to pay up, doesn't make much difference to me whether that is an IRS agent who's funding the next bomber or a robber donating to starving African children, either way it's violence to take your life (labor) away without your consent.
If the robber builds part of a road or whatever with your money that doesn't make me feel any better about it. Especially if I'm at gunpoint an entire 3-4 months of the year to do it (30% of the year).
(One exception seems to be workarounds for censorship. Although, the way things are going lately, I suspect that it'll change.)