Did any of you ever notice how #capitalism breaks systems that are supposed to help us? Rather like, we want to pay for useful things, but payment structures for many daily things make it unattractive to use them.
I think the biggest red flag that something is not in your favor is when people shit on taxes. That said, I do think that taxation is theft has some merit. I don't think we should have anything that would put you in prison if you don't do it, because the poor and disabled will be the victims. Also something that #communism #class #warfare people kinda ignore is that many rich people want to contribute but they are not allowed to pay more taxes than is allocated for them.
The right solution here is simplifying taxes to the point that you just have a bank account number and a coin box to leave taxes in. You can calculate a reference, but in the end everyone should be responsible themselves to pay taxes the way that works best for them. This way we have true community buy-in with community contributions. This can also fix issues with multi-country taxation and the very reason we have so many tax loopholes. If you are called on your morals instead of your shareholders, tax loopholes become completely nonsensical.
Also my favorite part of my religion, the Bahá'í faith, is that any and all kind of taxation is not just only done when you are really convinced about doing it, but also only over the part that is more than what you need to survive. I think taxation over the base amount of money you survive on is just criminal. But also, we shouldn't frame taxation as having rich people paying their fair share, but instead incorporating the rich as part of the community tasking to do what they do best, which can often involve putting their money to work.
Any kind of division creates war, and war kills people. Class warfare is never going to fix capitalism, only making sure that we are all part of the same community and society will.
#bahai #cohesivism #voluntary #taxation
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@lapingvino @cohesivism would you consider yourself to be a communist? If so, how do you reconcile this with being Baha’i ?
@theautisticcoach @cohesivism No, that's why I invented the term cohesivism.
@lapingvino @cohesivism would love to learn more about your idea!
@theautisticcoach @cohesivism Cohesivism is not properly my idea, I just created a label to talk about it outside of the context of the two situations where it is already in use: Rojava and the Bahá'í administration.
Funny enough, in Rojava the system came out of Apo's unhappiness with both capitalism and communism as well. The system is solid enough that at the moment Turkey is present in Rojava but cannot overthrow any government, because there isn't any. It's basically the proper way to do anarchism.
Now the economic part is way more on the Bahá'í side of things, but it is a fact that several millionaires have become Bahá'í and credibly do support with their fair share, and Bahá'í business owners are constantly looking into better ways to do business that work for everyone. The key point here is to communicate constantly with each other among anyone independent of how much you have. Class warfare will absolutely destroy this progress and delay a better world for many decades.
I think the basic principles in the Bahá'í faith are very sound: never pay any taxes if you cannot afford it, and only contribute out of full conviction. We want a world of peace, then we need to live up to this very high standard, and not believing that we can do this by itself is very destructive, following old Christian believes in original sin that we cannot break free from.
It's good also to read Rutger Bregman's Humankind. He does address the issue of people in power misusing their power, but very much shows that people are mostly really not like that. People don't want to fight, we are made to. Communism is one of the tools to have people fight each other, and as such can never create world peace.
@lapingvino @cohesivism thank you for the convo!