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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • It’s really fucking complicated and we don’t really assign purchases in a way that’d fully solve the problem - but if taken to a logical extreme I think simply taxing gifts as income sort of fixes all the loopholes.

    If we’re talking about the US the minimum income threshold for taxation is 13,850 - most personal expenses children incur wouldn’t sum up to exceed that threshold (outside of medical bills which it’s insane you have privatized in the US). So if gifts were treated as an income source then the first time kids would probably be hit with any owed taxes would be being gifted a car or being gifted college tuition.

    I think the standard exemption should probably be higher than it is but it’s still high enough to cover what we generally consider common expenses when raising a child. Using a rule like this would really even out the playing field for kids.



  • You can think of it that way - sure. If you want a deeper insight into development I’d just consider it a form of conditional switching. I think back to washing ores in SeaBlock (you’re running recipes that could output one of like six things and sushi-ing is the only real recourse). Some filters might be dealing with success cases, some might be error cases - they aren’t really treated any different at a basic level. The data needs to go where it’s supposed to and exceptions (excepting unhandled ones) aren’t really any different than any other status response.

    Many operations can return multiple states, a “correct” usage of that operation is being able to handle all of those states in a reasonable and planned manner.