https://twitter.com/kristentootie/status/1350454674701185026?s=19

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  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    This seems more like immigration than colonization, I mean it's not like she opened a sweatshop or built a coal mine.

    Also not paying taxes to the US while spending her American client's money in Indonesia is good.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's international gentrification.

      Literally no different than some PMC ghoul moving into a historically black neighborhood and bragging about how cheap the rent is and how they totally have black friends now.

      • zangorn [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        True....but that’s not really a bad thing except for the system itself that creates these incentives.

        • Koa_lala [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It wouldn't be a problem if the housing prices wouldn't skyrocket and if they weren't demolishing public/affordable housing to replace them with luxury condos.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's bad when gentrification drives prices up and pushes the original inhabitants of that place out with higher rents and cost of living.

          These "digital nomad" types also tend to seriously underreport their income to local governments for taxation purposes, so they put a strain on local medical systems, infrastructure, etc without giving back in any way except just buying shit.

          • zangorn [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            This is a reactionary take. Its true that gentrification is bad, for the reasons you've stated. But the solution isn't for individuals to boycott it and not move to mixed neighborhoods that otherwise would save money and be better fit for them.

            And blaming them for not paying enough taxes is just silly. The underpaid taxes that are causing strains in our system are not the 20-somethings with gigs here and there. You know who it is.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              But the solution isn’t for individuals to boycott it and not move to mixed neighborhoods that otherwise would save money and be better fit for them.

              The solution to a bad thing is not to stop doing the bad thing. Definitely not a reactionary take.

    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      pretty much this except, doesn't she have to pay taxes to the US anyway? I thought all US citizens do

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        More importantly, how much tax is she paying to Indonesia, the place she's using the infrastructure and benefiting from Healthcare and other services?

        • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Yeah I'm gonna guess she's not reporting her graphic design income that almost certainly all comes from overseas.

          • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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            4 years ago

            If she doesn't report the income as subject to tax by Indonesia, then she can't claim the FEITE and her income will be subject to taxation in America as long as she maintains American citizenship, regardless of how long she is out of the country.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        If you spend 330+ days/year in other countries (time at sea doesn't count, so sailors get fucked), income that is subject to taxes in other countries is exempt from US taxes, it's called the Foreign Earned Income Tax Exclusion.

      • irocktoo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        If she's working for a US company (like a work from home deal) I would assume she would have to pay US Tax. If you're an expat and working in a foreign nation for a foreign company you would have to pay US tax if you make more than like 130,000 USD. I could be wrong im no tax accountant.

    • Sealand_macronation [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      it’s not like she opened a sweatshop or built a coal mine.

      Taking bourgeois wealth away from its source is like Panama Papers praxis

    • Koa_lala [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The problem is that you're displacing the original communities and prices of everything skyrocket. Making the poor poorer.