Taxes are dumb.

It's hard to be controversial to say so. Most people who worked and earned money for a living would be frustrated by the whole experience that is so embedded in modern society, to the point it becomes something we learned to be helpless about.

This post won't try to change the way taxes work. I'm too small of a player for the legal system to give a damn about. ¹

I am surrounded by independent thinkers. ¹

From this limited sampling, I learn that most of these independent thinkers had an episode of being misunderstood, disagreed, or ridiculed by the people around them.

If you understand government budgets, you will stop believing in job security.

"It's so hard to find talent." -- company

"The job market for SWE is cooked." -- Software engineers 2024

In any given business, the ideal state is that you can get away doing the least while creating the most outcome. In practice, idling looks like wasted cost, lost revenue. This philosophy is the result of us getting conditioned by centuries of economic model where labor time can be valued economically.