• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    the central government giving a generation of young people a logical reason to operate unbanked is about the most shoot-yourself-in-the-foot move i've heard this year. like even saying it's a possibility down the road is wildly stupid.

    it's like step 0 in "how to grow the informal economy astronomically"

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Maybe that's why they want to start counting the informal economy towards GDP

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months 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.

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Especially in a country that is basically a pirate haven for finance criminals