calvadev on Nostr: "We take this for granted today, but collecting an income tax at the factory gate was ...

"We take this for granted today, but collecting an income tax at the factory gate was a far simpler task than fanning out over the countryside to squeeze a portion of the profits from millions of independent craftsmen and farmers."

- James Dale Davidson and Lord Williamson Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual

That's a feature, not a bug. And in cyberspace, this feature is unbounded.