On a macro scale, in Australia if you don't have a paid private health policy, you get slugged with additional tax come tax time. The same could happen here - "oh, you don't have social media? Well the state needs more tax from you to pay for your additional state surveillance"
Could it though? I have lived in rural areas and urban areas of the US. This speaks more to the rural areas than the urban, but only marginally--Americans like their firearms, they're suspicious of The Government, and they don't much care for the tax man. And by and large they like to be left the fuck alone. If the revenuers show up demanding too much we have a rich and storied history of mistreating them.
It's an interesting conundrum.. I've always viewed "the law" as something that doesn't really materialize until you're arrested, arraigned, tried, and sentenced. So "breaking" the law and "getting away with it" isn't actually "illegal" it's just... normal. The law only matters if some filthy rat narc catches you and summons the pigs. Not sure how any of that adjusts in this scenario, really.
On a macro scale, in Australia if you don't have a paid private health policy, you get slugged with additional tax come tax time. The same could happen here - "oh, you don't have social media? Well the state needs more tax from you to pay for your additional state surveillance"
Could it though? I have lived in rural areas and urban areas of the US. This speaks more to the rural areas than the urban, but only marginally--Americans like their firearms, they're suspicious of The Government, and they don't much care for the tax man. And by and large they like to be left the fuck alone. If the revenuers show up demanding too much we have a rich and storied history of mistreating them.
How's that working out right now?
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Or a precursor to minority report precrime
It's an interesting conundrum.. I've always viewed "the law" as something that doesn't really materialize until you're arrested, arraigned, tried, and sentenced. So "breaking" the law and "getting away with it" isn't actually "illegal" it's just... normal. The law only matters if some filthy rat narc catches you and summons the pigs. Not sure how any of that adjusts in this scenario, really.
Joke’s on them, I’ve been LARPing as a tech founder since childhood.