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Believe me, many cultures avoid paying taxes; I think it's only in the Anglo-Saxon world that paying taxes is considered an unavoidable duty.
Same thing with War.
Yes and the anglo saxons have enjoyed global resource hegemony for more than 200 years so taxes and the wars they fund have proven a good investment for anglo saxons...
Everyone else- not so much.
200 years from 4K of human history , that’s not enough to prove your claim
Go back through history and taxes were always ultimately the source of funding of wars.
In times of peace they could be used to build infrastructure and a stronger economy to be in a better position of greater wealth to fight the next war more successfully.
Inability to fund wars lead to subjugation.
Without the ability to fund war you will be over run by those who can and do.
Fiat money was an innovation that enhanced the ability to fund wars by debasing the monetary savings of all citizens.
Yes, that’s true, but there have also been long periods of time when cultures thrived without war or taxes. A snapshot of today doesn’t necessarily mean that these things can’t be avoided in the future.
Hope springs eternal.
The wealth of nations has always been determined by their ability to defend territory and project power over others.
Competition for territory and resources is written in our DNA.
War is the ultimate expression of DNA and the life force it encodes.
ok, you won, go to war, pay your taxes :D
Avoid taxation and increase the probability you and your nation will be subjugated, if you are not already...
Enjoy your subjugation!
War is as central to human DNA and culture as death and taxes.
Cope. Of course Cain would say that murder is an inevitable facet of human existence.
Jesus committed no murder, collected no tax, and rose from the dead, despite being human. This debunks your narrative.
But that's not Jesus doing it.
If I collect taxes in Satoshi's name what does that say about him? Nothing. My commentary means nothing.
It only takes one person getting it right to prove that life can be lived without war.
I agree.
Yet it's not a as definitive a refutation as you seem to believe of the claim made that war is as central to human DNA and culture as death and taxes.
Centrality does not require exclusivity. In that sense, your claim can be true at the same time as the other one.
I think a reasonable case could be made that Nephilimic DNA is contained in the Y chromosome, which would explain the uniqueness of Jesus in a deterministic way, but I prefer to give individual agency the benefit of the doubt and insist that millions of years of past wars are no excuse for aggressing today.
But in regards to @Solomonsatoshi's point as it relates to Bitcoin, the key innovation is not that Bitcoin abolishes war entirely, but that it reshapes the environmental incentive structure such that territorial land claims on real estate are practically worthless compared to the benefits of holding a relatively small refuge in cyberspace where free market competition enables such a vast array of technological advancements that traditional methods of warfare are rendered obsolete.
The Ukraine war is a 20th century war, 14 years and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Primitive. The Iran war is a 21st century post-Bitcoin war, thousands of deaths, less than one year, and Iran is already in basically the same position as Ukraine if not much worse.
Ukraine war is a challenge to the petrodollar empire post GFC when it became clear that China is now the dominant productive economy supporting the global economy. The IMF was forced to accept China onto the exclusive board of reserve currency issuers because the Yuan and China were the major pillar preventing collapse of the petrodollar empires institutional framework and protocols.
China is still the only member of the board that is not both a monetary and military tribute state to the USA.
Iran war is the USA pushing back against Chinas growing challenge to the petrodollar. With the development of mBridge and CIP enabling Yuan denominated oil trade and that trade expanding to more and more gulf states who joined mBridge protocol.
How much fiat debt issuance has USA expended upon the Iran war?
Would the US petrodollar be able to even launch the Iran war if it operated on the Bitcoin Standard and was already $40 T in the red? No.
Iran war is last hurrah as the petrodollar empire is flogged like a dead horse by its Zionist puppet masters as they launch their Greater Israel land grab to build a regional hegemony resistant to Chinas emerging dominance.
Bitcoin fine as a refuge - a virtual tax haven and SoV hedge against the insolvency and collapse of the petrodollar...but it does not and cannot enable you to debase all citizens savings in a war and that is a strategic disadvantage for any nation state where control of territory and trade routes is fundamental to both credibility and ultimately, survival.
Suez-Hormuz-end of empire.
War is as central to human DNA and culture as death and taxes.
Every generation hopes vainly this might change but it never has.
Life and DNA are fundamentally a competition for territory and resources and war is the most elemental expression of life and DNA.
Every virtue signalling dreamer, prophet and politician claims otherwise, but they lie.