> If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections. There's a number of assumptions in that sentence that I 'd like to challenge: a) That people act as…
> the only solution is to enforce bans against illegal transactions And that has happened (for a very very long time now). The key problem being "enforce". Enforcing works up to a point and there is always the need for…
The article btw is really really shady. Barely at the beginning of it: "The scheme is a radical attempt to cast some light on Greece's huge shadow economy, the world's largest" and let's look at…
The argument that corruption is very high on Greece and hence people prefer to not pay taxes makes intuitively sense but it's probably also (at least partly) confirmation bias. Note that per…
> The way I see it is that the government wants Greek nationals to use electronic payments for at least 30% of their expenses That does not compute. How does one prove that 30% of their expenses were done using…
> I'm not a different species. Yes, you are. You are his potential customer on this specific thing. It's just that he doesn't care about providing you with what you want to buy.
Their kind is your (potential?) customer actually. It's just that you don't care to wrap up your infrastructure in a nice packaged and heavily marketed solution and charge them for it.
Every single day. Logged in > 30 channels and talking to >20 people every day. It's a prereq for work anyway (more than half the company is actually on IRC). I also vastly prefer it to other solutions (yes, I tried…
> If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections. There's a number of assumptions in that sentence that I 'd like to challenge: a) That people act as…
> the only solution is to enforce bans against illegal transactions And that has happened (for a very very long time now). The key problem being "enforce". Enforcing works up to a point and there is always the need for…
The article btw is really really shady. Barely at the beginning of it: "The scheme is a radical attempt to cast some light on Greece's huge shadow economy, the world's largest" and let's look at…
The argument that corruption is very high on Greece and hence people prefer to not pay taxes makes intuitively sense but it's probably also (at least partly) confirmation bias. Note that per…
> The way I see it is that the government wants Greek nationals to use electronic payments for at least 30% of their expenses That does not compute. How does one prove that 30% of their expenses were done using…
> I'm not a different species. Yes, you are. You are his potential customer on this specific thing. It's just that he doesn't care about providing you with what you want to buy.
Their kind is your (potential?) customer actually. It's just that you don't care to wrap up your infrastructure in a nice packaged and heavily marketed solution and charge them for it.
Every single day. Logged in > 30 channels and talking to >20 people every day. It's a prereq for work anyway (more than half the company is actually on IRC). I also vastly prefer it to other solutions (yes, I tried…