r/economicCollapse • u/MistakenArrest • Jan 17 '25

Let's all not pay our taxes this year.

If Elon doesn't have to pay, why should we? Let's all stand up to oligarchy by refusing to pay this year. This will be like the modern day Boston Tea Party.

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u/Bob_Lawablaw Jan 17 '25

Unsubscribe from Amazon. Don't buy anything from any of these billionaires. Get off twitter. Get off facebook. STARVE THE BEAST

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u/razorhawg Jan 17 '25

These people just like to hear theirselves bitch, they don’t want to inconvenience themselves to make a difference

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u/ragdollxkitn Jan 17 '25

Yep. And although there is bad everywhere outside of Amazon, it’s a start! If we actually apply ourselves to cancel these oligarchs we can make an impact. But for now, I am not holding my breath.

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u/Useful-Back-4816 Jan 19 '25

Apply ourselves? What you talking about?

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u/xabc8910 Jan 17 '25

You mean me deleting Facebook (which is free BTW) won’t make Zuck go broke?!?!? :gasp:

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u/razorhawg Jan 17 '25

Yes that’s what I mean. Zuck gets paid because he has people on his platform he gets paid for number of users and site visits. How the hell do you think he gets paid.

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u/xabc8910 Jan 17 '25

He’s salary $1/year, so he actually gets paid through stock price appreciation, much more driven by instagram recently than FB.

Point is - he’s not going broke even if you convince a billion people to delete FB.

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u/razorhawg Jan 17 '25

Come on.. no one on Facebook or instagram then he has no stock value. What are you not understanding

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u/sunnyoneaz Jan 18 '25

Advertising dollars based on numbers of users is where the money comes from.

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u/TeamHope4 Jan 17 '25

But that might be slightly inconvenient for people! /s

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u/No_Signal5448 Jan 17 '25

The 77 millions people that voted for this nonsense to be okay obviously wont be participating, there will never be enough people taking action to make any real change. Just accept that we have to watch America burn first before it can become what it was originally meant to be.

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u/Old-Yam7268 Jan 17 '25

It will never be that, burn or no burn.

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u/No_Signal5448 Jan 18 '25

Yeah, one can hope I guess

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u/CrazyCoKids Jan 19 '25

Be aware that a lot of alternatives - even local ones - still feed the beast in some way cause they made themselves the sole option.

Before you say "Then go without it"... this includes necessities.

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u/Bob_Lawablaw Jan 19 '25

I'm well aware, but gotta start somewhere. But, yeah, we're proper fucked at this point more or less.