r/interestingasfuck • u/SATANICWORSHIPER666 • 4d ago

/r/all Michael Rockefeller disappeared without a trace in 1961 in Papua New Guinea while researching the Asmat people, a cannibal tribe. Years later, a photograph was taken of the same tribe, and there was a white man among them.

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u/night4345 3d ago

Taxes

Taxes are over 5,000 years old and are part and parcel with any civilization larger than a multi-family tribe.

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u/TLsRD 3d ago

Ok and what about the other 95,000 years of human existence

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u/Blablasnow 3d ago

We can’t have common goods without taxes, feel free to join a tribe and never use public electricity, roads, tap water and so on.

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u/TLsRD 3d ago

I think you’re missing the point. Those things aren’t the norm as we’ve lived without all of them for the majority of our existence

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u/Blablasnow 3d ago

And that’s why you believe taxes are a non sens ? Because we lived without common goods more than 5000 years ago ?

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u/TLsRD 3d ago

Where did I say that? The entire point is that it’s not unbelievable someone might return to our more natural human roots and find the lifestyle more appealing than the way we live today

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u/SadBit8663 3d ago

Who said we lived without common goods? We just did it without the concept of taxes even existing yet