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POV looking up from the ground at an armored knight with the caption “E-mails? Work in the morning?
School? Filing taxes?
What are you talking about?
You must have hit your head pretty hard”
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure filing taxes (taking all of 5 minutes) is a heck of a lot simpler for me than for any medieval peasant or minor nobility.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I dont have to fill out any complicated forms; I just have to give them like 3/4 of the produce grown on my farm. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    The amount (usually much less - unless there was some marauding army nearby) aside, it was more complicated than that. Taxation was delegated across a hierarchy of various stages; at each stage a mixture of negotiation, deception and coercion would be used to determine the taxation amount. The lowest-level tax collectors typically worked akin to a mob protection racket, and their own livelihood depended on extracting a surplus above what their employer (typically some noble) demanded.

    Certainly substantially less transparent and simple than clicking through an online form in a few minutes.

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