vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

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obviously capitalist production is fucking doomed but it's inventing some charmingly perverse ways of falling apart in its twilight years


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barely related but here's a thing we learned about US tax law1 back when we were a newborn company, thinking of registering for a tax exemption: if you're a 501(c) tax-exempt organization and you're operated on a non-profit basis but earn a substantial amount of money from "regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit" -- i.e., a business that people generally do for-profit -- the IRS is apt to challenge your tax exemption

and that's (part of) why we're just a normal LLC


  1. usual disclaimers: I am not a tax lawyer, this is not legal advice


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in reply to @vogon's post:

what always gets me is how incredibly easy it could be to be a hero here. Imagine buying all these houses and then giving them away or charging even the most base value. Imagine how easy and simple it'd be to just snatch up apartments and then set up co-ops. being a hero is so easy these days and yet

it's truly silly, you could create a pretty big community land bank with even one billion dollars and liberate a bunch of people from the housing market forever

but, of course, at this point everyone with a billion dollars is convinced that propping up the housing market and all the other markets is the best thing they can do for the world

like even if you used it for self-promotional purposes like mr beast or whatever, I don't care, it would still be so easy and do so much good

then again that's why neither of us are billionares, we have like... a soul left LOL