"Wow, I love olive oil so much! It just seems to improve everything you add it to!"

'Hold my beer coffee.'

Kinda like the good parts of slavery.

Oh yeah I figured you weren’t serious to begin with.

See my other replies.

Ah okay. Missed that part. Still not sure that makes a difference here. It definitely has a lot of its locations in black neighborhoods.

Yes? Agreed that it's shitty to base your opinion on tax enforcement based on how much you like the target of it. That was my whole point!

Like KFC?

Then why is the UK behind on it, when it’s a country that normally makes taxes easy? How did this story happen in the first place?

Oh right you just wanted to circlejerk about USA bad, but catching tax cheats is bad too, but only if you like them, and of course the tax system should have been set up to catch them faster 🙄 Ah, mental gymnastics.

Also, not everyone who cams does it through a big central employer/site. But everyone seems to always assume it’s some easily taxable entity like that.

No tax system automatically finds all self employment income like camming and collects the expenses for you. Even in countries with user-friendly tax system, there’s some work to do for the taxpayer in those cases. Hence this story about the UK! (Which is one of the user-friendly systems you probably consider fixed!)

It’s completely fair to criticize the US for requiring more scavenger hunt than necessary, but some forms of income inherently require some effort to file and may be missed if not reported by others. Camming self-employment is one of them.

No shit nobody likes being investigated for tax evasion! That’s kind of an obvious point to make! But our tax system depends on unreported income getting called out somehow. And like I said in the other comment, if an entire source of income is allegedly not being reported at all, that’s trivial for the IRS to rule out if the person is filing it somehow.

Yes, congrats, welcome to the world of not liking to pay taxes, hope you enjoy your first job!

Making money in a way that doesn’t automatically get get tracked for taxes then. 🙄

Because they don’t observe me making money.

If they’re not cheating on their taxes, it’s pretty easy to rule them out without them knowing. “Oh yep, that’s this person. Oh, yep, self employment income from modeling on their last 1040, probably not hiding anything.”

“No, that’s evil, when people I like have to deal with the same tax penalties as everyone else!”

There’s a /r/LeopardsAteMyFace thread doing exactly that.

Edit: lol it’s one that’s also linking this story.

I'm bored and fed up with people who can't use the search feature.

“There are no hard and fast rules in logo design. Except, don’t make it look like a penis, and don’t make it look like a swastika. Slack’s new logo did both.”

I still refer to Star Trek (2009) as one of the “new Star Trek movies” and that was almost 13 years ago now. The sequel was ten.

"Hey -- cut that out, that's not professional. You can't just compare someone to 'the French', a fictional society made up as an over-the-top example of people who are dainty and cowardly, more interested in setting up beautiful boulevards than the invading armies marching down them."

'Um, sir...' *whisper whisper whisper*

"Oh ... well, shit."

Right, that’s what I think OP meant as the oniony angle, the bizarre contrast in crimes.

Like, “Milosevic convicted of ethnic cleansing and use of presidential limo for unofficial business.”

See also arson, murder, and jaywalking.

Nobody paid $44 bn. It was jointly financed across multiple parties.

And even if Musk had out put up $44 bn, it doesn’t mean the other losses were attributable solely to that purchase. The Tesla price fluctuations were not entirely due to the sale of Musk’s shares, for example.

That’s not the right way to account for it. It’s one party’s loss because of semi related events. Not everyone who participated in the twitter purchase suffered a share of the $200 bn loss, only of the $43 bn loss.

The nit where, in context, the relevant comparison would be to the cost of twitter. If you weren’t using that as the baseline, as would be natural, you can just say, “I was comparing to Musk’s personal loss of net worth” instead of making me read a link to untangle what you mean.

Nit: The buyout price for Twitter was $43 billion.

Thanks to all easily amused redditors for not starting an inane pun thread with "But what if they came Bach?"

I guess that would be too low-effort even by your standards...