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[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 67 points 5 months ago

“You don’t need to use us for payments but you still need to pay us for the payments we had nothing to do with” is perfectly monopolistic

[-] sarchar@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Sounds eerily similar to taxes.

[-] slowbyrne@beehaw.org 19 points 5 months ago

Taxes contribute to providing services and infrastructure to the people. This takes money from the people and deposits it into the bank accounts of the wealthy. I see two very different things.

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