Gaywallet (they/it) to [email protected] • 10 months agoPluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”pluralistic.netmessage-square219fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoYes, you do, in the form of buying gas or paying taxes. You don’t even have to use the bridge to have to pay for it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoso use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoIt depends on the system. In taxes, yes. Use isn’t tied to paying. In consumer goods and services, they are not paid by taxes. So they do have a direct use/buy causation.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agono, they don’t: people make things without being paid all the time.
Yes, you do, in the form of buying gas or paying taxes. You don’t even have to use the bridge to have to pay for it.
so use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.
It depends on the system. In taxes, yes. Use isn’t tied to paying. In consumer goods and services, they are not paid by taxes. So they do have a direct use/buy causation.
no, they don’t: people make things without being paid all the time.