ah, working from home, when the personal annoyance of a defective printer can suddenly become a business crisis that I have to resolve with my own money because ultimately it's my printer, not my employer's
@zebratron2084 which I guess is a way to say I’m ambivalent on the policy. Ultimately it’s another acknowledgment that relying on people with money to actually participate in the economy in ways that let everyone else get some of the money is an inadequate approach from the outset.
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taxing someone on the money they make by not spending it on something that economic privilege has permitted them to avoid is not unprecedented; several countries tax homeowners on the rent they aren't paying. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/taxing-homeowners-as-if-they-were-landlords/