• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    I’m sure they want to. every country wants to get a taste in taxes, but it is unrecorded, invisible, and generally impenetrable by virtue of it’s function.

    people spend 5 years attempting to estimate the informal economic activity of a single sector in a single community and it’s just a number on a page. it’s like “estimating” how many people in Canada had how many embarrassing, secret dreams about unicorns last year.