- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-02-07 - status-updated: 2022-03-06 * #articleseed/afterword A deep dive on how efficient taxes actually caused problems for the British government based on [[2021-10-18 Taxes]] & the 2022.06.20 Tax Collectors edition * [[collecting taxes is cheaper than controlling labor forces]] * [[too much taxation leads to starvation]] * [[Mesoamerican governments distributed taxed food in times of famine]] * [[the technical and psychological design rationale behind everyday things]] * [[We Condone It by Our Silence by Rebecca Futo Kennedy]] -- Athenian taxes (import taxes vs. local taxes vs. extracted taxes) - This article about [the history of bribery](https://theconversation.com/from-our-ancestors-to-modern-leaders-all-do-it-the-story-of-corruption-102164) is a great reference for this. - Related:: [[2022-07-23 Spider Cheese for You and Me (MF)]] - The first thing I learned smuggling was: don’t ask questions. It worked great until I wound up in front of the continent’s most stringent taxmen, mouth gaping like a fish while they gutted a pregnant spidersow right in the middle of my cargo hold. Now I get the bribe money up front. %% Note: Took 25 minutes to write %%