All pcs require an isp subscription to access the internet, they also require the purchase of an os to use the system. Not to mention the system in the First place.
All things are "behind a pay wall" its just that people don't like this one. And that's fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you don't like it, don't pay it. That is your free choice.
I imagine the % of people who have an xbox and a Netflix sub, but will never ever ever play online games, use the browser, play xbla games or get dlc, use Skype and or voip over gold is ridiculously small. And that's what annoys me, most people who are complaining buy gold for the online functions anyway. So they are complaining because its something to complain about, and that's just dumb. Its a suite of services, i wish people would stop acting like its a double sub.
Back to taxes, there has never been a civilized society that did not have a system of taxation. Certain taxes are dumb, that's undeniable, carbon taxes, green taxes, fat taxes, pence per unit taxes, fuel duty and inheritance tax to name a few.
But a few bad taxes doesn't make the idea of a tax bad, it makes the law maker who made THAT tax, a moron, and the house that voted it through, also morons.
Taxes pay for roads and the police. Without roads you have no infrastructure, no business, no movement, no modern world. Without police you have no law, and consequently no freedom. (as people will simply take it from you unless you kill them).
A tax system is the very corner stone of civilization, its necessary. However unfortunate. It just is. There is no other way.
(even barter systems have taxes, the person that oversees the trades to make sure they are fair, and sets the trade ratios of certain commodities, would take a small cut for his part in securing the deal)
All things are "behind a pay wall" its just that people don't like this one. And that's fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you don't like it, don't pay it. That is your free choice.
I imagine the % of people who have an xbox and a Netflix sub, but will never ever ever play online games, use the browser, play xbla games or get dlc, use Skype and or voip over gold is ridiculously small. And that's what annoys me, most people who are complaining buy gold for the online functions anyway. So they are complaining because its something to complain about, and that's just dumb. Its a suite of services, i wish people would stop acting like its a double sub.
Back to taxes, there has never been a civilized society that did not have a system of taxation. Certain taxes are dumb, that's undeniable, carbon taxes, green taxes, fat taxes, pence per unit taxes, fuel duty and inheritance tax to name a few.
But a few bad taxes doesn't make the idea of a tax bad, it makes the law maker who made THAT tax, a moron, and the house that voted it through, also morons.
Taxes pay for roads and the police. Without roads you have no infrastructure, no business, no movement, no modern world. Without police you have no law, and consequently no freedom. (as people will simply take it from you unless you kill them).
A tax system is the very corner stone of civilization, its necessary. However unfortunate. It just is. There is no other way.
(even barter systems have taxes, the person that oversees the trades to make sure they are fair, and sets the trade ratios of certain commodities, would take a small cut for his part in securing the deal)
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