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my hottest take is that society can run on voluntary taxes if we align incentives properly and make the process transparent

It's like nobody in this thread has heard of the massive public goods ecosystem and all the experimentation going on around this idea of "voluntary taxes".

But yes, very promising hypothesis that if we align incentives with transparent systems we can actually create an environment where people enjoy funding things for improving their existence without monetary rewards for doing so.

most of us are well aware, we just consider those experiments largely failures thus far

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not sure how you can argue that e.g. the OP retro public good model is anything resembling a voluntary tax. not sure even what I’d call it but whatever it is, it’s perverse and largely ineffective.

Who's "us" lol. I was just ragging on all the responses in that thread as if it was some dead-on-arrival idea that's already been settled.

It's a complex nut to crack, for sure. I have a lot of opinions about why current systems aren't working! 

But I don't think it's actually that hot of a take considering there's an entire ecosystem founded on the exact principle that ppl will voluntarily pay taxes if they trust how they are being used.

I wonder how many ppl even actually grok that public goods=taxes?