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mircea_popescu: lol. someone should point out to the sperm seller the precedent re paying for child support.
mircea_popescu: so no, participation in the us chumpatron is voluntary in the sense participation in the communist party was voluntary.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very theoretically. in the sense you're theoretically welcome to shoot the president.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, but contractors aren't physical persons, they're legal persons, and that rule does exist.
mircea_popescu: pending you prove that you have a "legitimate reason" and in any case you face prosecution under the "trying to avoid prosecution for using your own money" laws.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the fuss will be that on the third time yo udo it your house will be confiscated,
mircea_popescu: in any case any qty of cash will be confiscated by govt agents on sight
mircea_popescu: and keep it at home, i'll be in violation of the "corps must keep their funds i na bank" rule.
mircea_popescu: if i hire someone to go take money out every day for a year, 300 bucks at a time,
mircea_popescu: they then proceed me to tell me that they can pay some, but can't tell me how much.
mircea_popescu: let's run some scenarios. i am a contractor, working for you. you write me a check for 100k.
mircea_popescu: you're allowed except you're not and if you do we fuck you up ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then what part of "not allowed" don't you follow ?
mircea_popescu: on the other hand because you're not rlegally allowed to make withdrawals.
mircea_popescu: on one hand because you are legally required to keep your money in the bank
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but yes they do. suppose you work for company x.
mircea_popescu: i guess im the only privileged asshole here, i never did anything to eat.
mircea_popescu: it's just that it makes no sense for you to keep virtual benjamins if you do nothing in the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: like you know, some people don't wear dockers, because they're not social justice warriors, the women they fuck don't even know what dockers are, etc.
mircea_popescu: nope. it's mostly because they are not part of that world.
mircea_popescu: about 200mn of us citizens live in the fictitious world of bezzle. they never use cash for anything. about 50mn us citizens live in the real economy, they mostly use tide for currency, but at the fringe there's this exchange of people who work for the fictitious economy,
mircea_popescu: "If your employer offers you insurance that doesn’t provide free ella, or anything else on the list of “preventive services”—as defined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and ultimately by Obama—then it’s subject to a fine of $36,500 a year. But if your employer doesn’t offer you insurance at all, it’s subject to a fine of $2,000 a year. "
mircea_popescu: what did that thing ipo at, was it 25 ? or 30 something ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure eventually people will, just this bs "o we're the sec/jpm/herpdiderp, we don't need no stikinin' obedience to bitcoin" will have to be either crushed or dissolved first.
mircea_popescu: and the forums i wouldn't advise anyone to read, unless they had mastered both the topic and internet stuff.
mircea_popescu: making a proper reading list is definitely something someone with a background in education could halp with
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves we definitely need a curriculum, currently it's "stfu and read", but the implied "read what ?!" is never really addressed.
mircea_popescu: lampelina hey, you considering a "must read these" page ?
mircea_popescu: basically they're forcing people to be paid in lala land whether they live in lalaland or the actual tide economy
mircea_popescu: the fact that they enforce it on the "Well to do" govt employees makes it very expensive for actual workers to gateway to the cash ecpnomy they use
mircea_popescu: " 'Operation Choke Point,' which is designed to destroy three sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors ("TPPPs"), payday lenders, and online lenders. ". sez breitbart.
mircea_popescu: this baby daddy thing looks exactly like bh20910 or w/e it was
mircea_popescu: sooo... aaron spelling is just re-doing the same shit over and over
mircea_popescu: which probably worked, which is why it got perpetuated.
mircea_popescu: benkay yeah because "innovations" are now commodified, like brent
mircea_popescu: but under survival pressure has curtailed the conference to just two people
mircea_popescu: some derp that's trying to make a living out of conferences, and looking for sponsors
mircea_popescu: some fucktarded "life coach" or w/e shits all over it.