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Re:Scott Adams has died by Imustaskforhelp on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:02PM (#46609650)
Adding onto this, we all pay some forms of taxes one way or other and those taxes are sometimes used by govts to then either be lost in corruption or scandals or the govt itself spends it on something you might not appreciate if you know the full context of details (especially when they pertain to war)

> Ignore is not only bliss, but necessary.

It honestly depends on the time, if we as a society wants change, some amount of uncomfort is needed to better shape it for the needs/affordability of the average person but also a lot of people don't want to face that uncomfort so they wish to be ignorant partially being the reason that some of the issues are able to persist even in a democratic system

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Re:Scott Adams has died by c-hendricks on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:32PM (#46610038)
No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, but I'm pretty sure giving money to Scott Adams is much more optional than paying taxes.
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Re:Scott Adams has died by fc417fc802 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:16PM (#46612277)
> under capitalism

Not capitalism but rather in any globalized and industrialized reality I would think. Anything beyond cottage production and you very rapidly lose the ability to propagate blame.

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Re:Scott Adams has died by Imustaskforhelp on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:57AM (#46615498)
I think home made cottage production of tech (similar to Open source) might be an interesting proposition though. Like we as a community should support small tech more favourably than big tech and I think in many cases small tech is even more price competitive (while remaining sensibly and not burning/having VC money of course) as compared to large big tech which sometimes might be profitable in short term but they lock in.

Everything combined, I feel like its the time for a movement/ genuine support towards indie web or small tech (passionate people making software that they themselves want/wanted)

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