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  • @Seedmember
    @Seedmember 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36711

    'Pays 200 bucks everyday to walk from one side of town to the other'
    "Thank god there are no taxes in this free city!"

    • @OrgusDin
      @OrgusDin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3306

      this is how people play free to play games with microtransactions

    • @Gin-toki
      @Gin-toki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1106

      No different from real life where some people pay low taxes but then pay a heck of a lot for many other basic necessities :P

    • @PushingDownDaisys
      @PushingDownDaisys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +546

      Even states/countries with no income tax "appear" this way. They get them out of you another way, they always do ;)

    • @SoManyZubats
      @SoManyZubats 2 ปีที่แล้ว +306

      If I had to pay $200 every time I left my house I would be paying less tax then I am right now

    • @TheRoadmankilla
      @TheRoadmankilla 2 ปีที่แล้ว +264

      @@SoManyZubats doubtful that’s 73000 a year in fees, unless your making over 200k a year

  • @NoSoupForYouu
    @NoSoupForYouu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19642

    I love that your solution was essentially "taxing" people but not calling it "taxes" by way of "amusement park" entrance fees in between locations

    • @2n974
      @2n974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +899

      He could be a president at this point

    • @fanaticaltechpriest1002
      @fanaticaltechpriest1002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1644

      Pretty much how real right libertarianism would work in practice

    • @UncleWermus
      @UncleWermus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +508

      He even slipped up and called them taxes, lol

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +925

      It's almost like taxes are inevitable or something if you want to upkeep infrastructure and services or something

    • @bendover8477
      @bendover8477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@elvingearmasterirma7241Cospaia and Acadia would beg to differ

  • @Sprech41
    @Sprech41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6361

    incredible, he managed to invent pedestrian toll booths

    • @Linaaa1506
      @Linaaa1506 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      Coming to America in 2024

    • @kayaguvendi
      @kayaguvendi ปีที่แล้ว +47

      There are such bridges in many places. One got famous in India a few years ago when several dozen people (if my memory serves me well) drowned in the river underneath when it got overloaded.

    • @hawks9142
      @hawks9142 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you went off the wear they do to the road like they do with cars the cost would be literally pennies, I'd honestly be willing to pay that if it means not risking my life everytime I step outside

    • @SouthernHerdsman
      @SouthernHerdsman ปีที่แล้ว

      they didn't model fueless inexpensive cosmic energy reactor into the game, which is available since 1950.

    • @termiterasin
      @termiterasin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When society is failing, call the walk to work an amusement ride.

  • @caitlin4598
    @caitlin4598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10306

    This video is basically 'city skylines without taxes'
    step one: how to disguise taxes

    • @Torodes23
      @Torodes23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      Step one is literally every country out there lol

    • @burnttoast26
      @burnttoast26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +333

      Even "libertarian paradises" would have to start taxing eventually. They just wouldn't call it taxes.

    • @ZZ-pq6ht
      @ZZ-pq6ht 2 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      @@burnttoast26 "Regular Sustenance Payments"

    • @leerman22
      @leerman22 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@burnttoast26 RENT

    • @LVP404
      @LVP404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My compliments to you

  • @LivingNihilism
    @LivingNihilism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4692

    EA: These are not Lootboxes, they are surprise mechanics
    AA: These are not taxes, they are tollroads and semi-forced amusementpark fees.

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Sounds like New York.

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      This isn't a shipping fee, it's free shipping locked behind a monthly subscription.

    • @CoralCopperHead
      @CoralCopperHead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This isn't a game made for your amusement, it's a business practice explicitly targeted at stupid people that people who are not stupid have no reason to complain about.

    • @kavishbansal
      @kavishbansal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@renakunisaki that's just Amazon Prime

    • @somedouchemcbag987
      @somedouchemcbag987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@godlaake6034 *sound of a cash register heard in the distance*
      It`s okay, friend, you got your paycheck.
      You can stop shilling for amazon now.

  • @Aone339
    @Aone339 ปีที่แล้ว +2880

    My favourite part of this was that the whole time trying to avoid taxing people, you've created a system that relies on one of the most hated tax form - tolls

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tolls aren't tax. You choose to pay a toll when you use someone else's property. Tolls are superior to tax and would keep traffic down. Taxation is theft

    • @nalgene247
      @nalgene247 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Must have missed the entire intro lmao

    • @ImACatNotAMouse
      @ImACatNotAMouse 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Property tax: *Am I a joke to you?*

    • @Snusnu2977
      @Snusnu2977 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@ImACatNotAMouse yes you are

    • @lordfabulous6198
      @lordfabulous6198 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@ImACatNotAMousenot as annoying as income tax.

  • @C_Sloth
    @C_Sloth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7264

    The people of the city: "isn't this just taxes with extra steps?"
    AA: "no...." *Summons meteors from the heavens*

    • @That__Guy
      @That__Guy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Taking a fee for walking through the city = taxes with extra steps (nice)

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      NYC does this. Try entering or leaving without paying tolls. And that's on top of absurdly high taxes for sketchy services at best.

    • @fewkeyfewkey5414
      @fewkeyfewkey5414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@badlaamaurukehu probably cuz nyc a big city and actually needs money 😱

    • @InitiateDee
      @InitiateDee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@fewkeyfewkey5414 it's because NYC is hell on earth

    • @jaquilynnblaque6888
      @jaquilynnblaque6888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Don't question it."
      -AA Probably

  • @pauloneufneufneuf
    @pauloneufneufneuf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1457

    I fully LOLed from beginning to end.
    The Amusement Parks are genius. "You don't have to walk through them. You could just stay at home. It's your choice"

    • @konstantinkrastev4478
      @konstantinkrastev4478 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      florida

    • @willy4170
      @willy4170 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Smart working

    • @choiswimmer
      @choiswimmer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remote workers rise up!!

    • @IDonotHaveAGoodName
      @IDonotHaveAGoodName 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      same reasonning as "I don't necessarily have to pay my taxes, I can live in the woods alone"

  • @Rippi__
    @Rippi__ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    If the hardest part of building a perpetual motion machine is to hide the batery, the hardest part of a tax-free city is to hide the taxes.

    • @Clawed..
      @Clawed.. 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Perfect example lmao

  • @thelootfinder8960
    @thelootfinder8960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2123

    Ambiguous is gonna get in a lot of trouble when the meteor of August 2024 hits

    • @ambiguousamphibian
      @ambiguousamphibian  2 ปีที่แล้ว +300

      Lol

    • @selectioncrescimento
      @selectioncrescimento 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      A suspiciously small meteor hitting a landfill

    • @Godsire
      @Godsire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      He's also going to get in trouble if there's a big fire in August 2023

    • @JeResjo
      @JeResjo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Godsire well, from last summer experience, I guess the only matter will be to know which one he was talking about

    • @Godsire
      @Godsire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@JeResjo depressingly true

  • @knessovich
    @knessovich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2215

    I love how he goes full circle and refers to the amusement parks as "tax income" at 8:41

  • @fightingfinn1503
    @fightingfinn1503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    Theres a more...decrete way of getting rid of dumps and graveyards that are full, you turn off the building making the workers leave, then you use the collapse building button on it then rebuild. I call it a "controlled demolition".

  • @garretteverett2613
    @garretteverett2613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17350

    Taxation is theft, and the right to choose to commute through a series of expensive yet barren amusement parks to survive is FREEDOM

    • @FayezButts
      @FayezButts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +386

      Now this guy gets it

    • @TheAxeaman
      @TheAxeaman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +671

      The thing with libertarianism is that supporters of it don’t want the capitalists to pay taxes, just us workers. Of course, this is also the same way in all systems of capitalism.

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      @@TheAxeaman wrong

    • @schaakakon9473
      @schaakakon9473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      And in the great words of the most American William Wallace "FRRREEEEEDOOOOOM"

    • @TheAxeaman
      @TheAxeaman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      @@squidwardo7074 wrong?

  • @matthewmccoy7437
    @matthewmccoy7437 2 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    the government secretly redirecting meteors to blow up problem areas sounds like a great movie plot lmao

    • @BlueBeetle1939
      @BlueBeetle1939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That is the inciting incident of Starship Troopers

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and a great real life plot, its basically happened already, just on a smaller scale

    • @RustoKomuska
      @RustoKomuska 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@squidwardo7074 yeah except they used planes instead of meteors

    • @FurryWrecker911
      @FurryWrecker911 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like a plot for The Bad Guys 2.

    • @idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472
      @idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember a movie similar coming out around 2001

  • @shawnconway9957
    @shawnconway9957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +781

    "They're not taxes, they're tolls."
    "What's a toll?"
    "A tax."

  • @Neoentrophy
    @Neoentrophy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +661

    I like how you replaced residential, commercial and industrial taxes, only to replace them with a high tax on walking to work...

    • @Eventide215
      @Eventide215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Look, you get to live here free, work here for free, and have your business here for free.. moving around the city though? That's going to cost you.

    • @PushingDownDaisys
      @PushingDownDaisys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Eventide215 Guess ill need to live in my business which is my work. Elon Musk style.

    • @iamcool544
      @iamcool544 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats basically the libertarian's whole idea. They want to ONLY pay for whatever they use, so you would pay a monthly fee to use a road, a monthly fee to be able to have your house put out if it catches fire, a monthly fee for garbage collection. You know, definitely NOT taxes with extra steps and the ability for a private corporation to fuck you as hard as they want.

    • @richardkeith9498
      @richardkeith9498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It's not a Tax, it's a Toll!

    • @despawnme9154
      @despawnme9154 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@PushingDownDaisys you mean living out the back of his car given his shit deal to buy twitter xD

  • @Banaaani
    @Banaaani 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Forcing people to get to work through multiple amusement parks, paying 200 dollars total and then getting rid of garbage with a meteor has to be the funniest thing I have seen this month.

  • @kylew3715
    @kylew3715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1063

    It's just too bad that private companies can't provide services due to game limitations, I'd love to see a Rouge fire station shaking down residences for cash in order to put out the fire

    • @MM-vs2et
      @MM-vs2et ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Hell yeah, civil war era New York baby!

    • @pikachuichooseyou4273
      @pikachuichooseyou4273 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Like Marcus Crassus🪙

    • @PYBR0
      @PYBR0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MM-vs2etwat

    • @IWillSmurfYou
      @IWillSmurfYou ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Based and free marketpilled

    • @Rami-L
      @Rami-L ปีที่แล้ว +34

      cyberpunk edgerunners ambulance be like

  • @grantwilliams630
    @grantwilliams630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5509

    Time to validate my entire economic belief system by watching a lizard man play a city simulation video game.

    • @SirDonkle
      @SirDonkle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      Based

    • @A1B2946
      @A1B2946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @chad007. Based.

    • @jmdibonaventuro
      @jmdibonaventuro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +431

      And it only took 5 attempts! That surely validates all your long-held socioeconomic and political views
      Edit: What have I started?

    • @theakbars98
      @theakbars98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@jmdibonaventuro Cospaia seemed to get it the first try...

    • @ladyhoundstooth5671
      @ladyhoundstooth5671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      @@theakbars98 ...The tiny microstate that was desolved in 1826?

  • @deidadada89
    @deidadada89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    AA: *Calls first two cities as dumpster fire*
    Third city: *Ah yes let me show you true fire*

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And the final city has its problems solved with a sort of dumpster fire.

  • @schmeterling
    @schmeterling 2 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    8:38 actually, its way more profitable to just zone them all like one park which has a lot of small side entrances. and more importantly, with every star level it gets, the ticket prices also go up. so its a really good idea to invest into your parks

  • @sylkates
    @sylkates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +826

    You basically invented Disney World a few times. A privately run city that's largely amusement parks with large entrance fees.

    • @samuelmade5776
      @samuelmade5776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Except Disneyland doesn't deal with dead people

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      @@samuelmade5776 not that we know of

    • @dex6316
      @dex6316 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Disney World was a local government. They have the authority to tax, raise municipal bonds, and erect local laws. This right was given in the 1960s and taken away in 2022 because Republicans didn’t like Disney’s CEO condemning a bill targeting LGBT kids. As a side note, no one knows what’s going to happen to Disney’s 1B in municipal debts, or how maintenance in Disney World will occur.

    • @wotwott2319
      @wotwott2319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      ​@@samuelmade5776 oh they definitely have some skeletons in their closet

    • @mortober
      @mortober 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@samuelmade5776 With how many people visit the park they definitely do.

  • @RemnantCult
    @RemnantCult 2 ปีที่แล้ว +666

    This feels like a setting for a dystopian novel, written by someone who thinks its utopian for some reason.

    • @sakuuuto
      @sakuuuto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      Bruh stop Ayn Rand is already dead

    • @thebiggestcheems
      @thebiggestcheems 2 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      @@sakuuuto yeah, that's one mercy we all get.

    • @РыцарьДляБедных
      @РыцарьДляБедных 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *Welcome to Rapture City. No gods, no king, only man.*

    • @viniciustrovo1196
      @viniciustrovo1196 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nobody said that

    • @biocapsule7311
      @biocapsule7311 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thebiggestcheems Not really, Rand is like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving.

  • @52flyingbicycles
    @52flyingbicycles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    If you have to pay $200 to commute to work, you’d have to make $25 an hour to break even. The median wage in the US is $19 per hour.

    • @kloaken1
      @kloaken1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or work more hours

    • @MelanatedRepublican
      @MelanatedRepublican 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kloaken1 some people don't understand the concept

    • @anthonyJones-ll4ei
      @anthonyJones-ll4ei 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@kloaken1 sir, $200 from work and $200 back home for 5 days a week is $2000 dollars a week. if someone works 40 hours and make $19 then that is 760 dollars a week. In order to break even, they would need to work 106 hours a week would isn't REALISTICALLY possible to do on a 5 day work week so they will have to work every day of the week and they will have to sleep below the health requirement so they will die in less than 1 year if they tried that.
      That is why the argument of work more doesn't every workout because human's are not robots so they can't work all day everyday and live a long life at the same time. The only people who make those types of arguements are business owners, people who wants to be business owners or workers who idolize businesses.

    • @99Teutons
      @99Teutons หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can choose not to

    • @Barely_Edited
      @Barely_Edited 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MelanatedRepublicanworking long hours makes you less productive. Its bad for the brain

  • @Khadharphak
    @Khadharphak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Imagine your city hall employing a mad scientist under the table to create a meteor magnet just so they can drop it on their own city in order to address garbage complaints

    • @GlavestoneCarnston
      @GlavestoneCarnston 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      100% chance this is a warhammer40k story.

    • @KOTYAR0
      @KOTYAR0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Putin did something like this to justify Ch3chen w2r

    • @patrickbateman1660
      @patrickbateman1660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "WHY ARE YOU ANGRY THE TRASH IS GONE ISNT IT!!!"

    • @yaraduardo1287
      @yaraduardo1287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And dead bodies

  • @griffinbastion
    @griffinbastion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +507

    I love it how the videos are so chaotic compared to livestreams

  • @AaaaAaaa-mw2nq
    @AaaaAaaa-mw2nq ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Imagine the phone calls
    “Grandma got hit by a meteor..”
    “Grammy Pam?”
    “No. The dead one.”

  • @ambiguousamphibian
    @ambiguousamphibian  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3813

    ...And unintentionally created a libertarian utopia in the process

  • @mccormack570
    @mccormack570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4249

    Paying 200 dollars to walk across town instead of taxes is the video game equivalent of the US paying thousands for health insurance instead of taxes.

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      I dont even live in America and I did a laugh/sob at that

    • @PushingDownDaisys
      @PushingDownDaisys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +351

      Yeah, or states with no income tax that have absurd sales tax, property tax, and "use tax". But hey! No income tax.

    • @user-qd6jt9sd3h
      @user-qd6jt9sd3h 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@PushingDownDaisys thankfully they don't do that

    • @Kazner0h
      @Kazner0h 2 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Haha, the only difference is that in this city the ghoulish parasites are amusement park moguls instead of health insurance moguls. At least the whimsy is a little bit of a plus? Until the meteor of course.

    • @pollyphemeus
      @pollyphemeus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      sadly, we pay both. :(

  • @grandparagnar6709
    @grandparagnar6709 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The great fire of August 2023 is starting to sound ominous

  • @stuyboi888
    @stuyboi888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    That was fantastic, I'm not witty enough to write something funny. I was raised in this dull community of endless happiness. We had 4 parks, a zoo and no taxes. But I dumb

    • @pbug867
      @pbug867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣

    • @wingsofhope2
      @wingsofhope2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      "When do we get to the ride?"
      "This IS the ride! Yippeeeee!"

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I keep reading this and it's making me lose my shit lmaooo

  • @michaelpara8582
    @michaelpara8582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    My favorite part about the jet ski ride pavilion is how the water is 30 feet below the pier

    • @nesurame
      @nesurame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      It doubles as a Tower drop ride that way

    • @IsadoraMendesSilva
      @IsadoraMendesSilva 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      the thrill is figuring out how to not die from the jetski fall

  • @kevinmclaughlin3088
    @kevinmclaughlin3088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I absolutely died when I heard "No one would suspect the meteor of August 2024 was an inside job".
    Whatever is necessary to not pay taxes!!!!

  • @badgercode
    @badgercode 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    The daisy chain of amusement parks that are actually just a path is hilarious 😂

  • @Bec-Son
    @Bec-Son 2 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    Have you ever done a 99% tax challenge? I would love to see the other side of the extreme

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      I think ita impossibly unlike 0% tax. Even with very high happiness, max tax causes people to abandon. Stretch to get passed 14%. With income, there are other sources outside of tax.

    • @hottestofthell23
      @hottestofthell23 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      In terms of tax rates, during 1973-74, India witnessed the highest marginal tax rate (including surcharge) of 97.75%. It was gradually brought down to 50% in 1991-92 and further slashed to 30% in the following years. Currently, it stands at 42.7%.

    • @hottestofthell23
      @hottestofthell23 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It happened in reality in India, thats how common people learned how to evade tax

    • @itzswedie
      @itzswedie ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In sweden we pay in total around 55-60% in taxes, when you take into account things like groceries, gas etc, and of course regular tax on your salary.

    • @OLBastholm
      @OLBastholm ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ​@@itzswedieThat's not how anyone calculates taxes.

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    9:00 One of the best lines I have ever heard.

  • @F0XX7
    @F0XX7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    Needs a toll booth in every citizens’s driveway 😂

  • @isaackellogg3493
    @isaackellogg3493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    “That burned down, fell over, THEN sank into the swamp. But the _fourth_ one, stayed OOP!”

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but faaaaather! I don't want to get married!

    • @isaackellogg3493
      @isaackellogg3493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SALEENS7GTR5 Don’t want her?! 🤬 What’s wrong with her?! She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got yuuuuuuuge…


      Tracts of land!

  • @heck_n_degenerate940
    @heck_n_degenerate940 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Finally, a truly American city.

  • @LordSevla
    @LordSevla 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This style showing the cities that went wrong is good. When you just do the best city of looks like there weren't any effort because we don't know how hard it is.

  • @TheRaven078
    @TheRaven078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Its like when a bill doesn't have a tax, but does have a "convenience charge".

  • @oversizedspeedbump9375
    @oversizedspeedbump9375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    ancapistan achieved. thank you for doing god's work

  • @caitlin4598
    @caitlin4598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I love the commentary on these videos so much--just the deadpan delivery cracks me up every single time

  • @patrickbateman1660
    @patrickbateman1660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1093

    "You want me to pay 5% more in income tax for healthcare? Uhhhhh no thanks I would rather pay 15% in a private market"

    • @StalkTheHype
      @StalkTheHype 2 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      More like 150%, if you look at costs for Americans vs literally any developed country on earth

    • @gta1kev
      @gta1kev ปีที่แล้ว +29

      ​@@StalkTheHype capitalism, i bet if hospitals gave realistic prices it would be payable for normal people.

    • @belthesheep3550
      @belthesheep3550 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@StalkTheHype Yeah 'cus it's not like healthcare is extensively regulated in the US

    • @truwu8177
      @truwu8177 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      something something government regulation artificially limits amount of healthcare workers and services something something free market good something something I'm gay

    • @1758
      @1758 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ​@gta1kev nope, I live in Poland where public healthcare is 100% free. But if you choose a private healing then it's still not that cheap.

  • @ApocGenesis
    @ApocGenesis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The perfect city does not need taxes"
    >Must walk through four amusement parks to reach work
    >$200 to walk from one end of town to the other
    >Fragrant abundance of uncollected corpses and garbage mixing with mandatory amusement park food
    "Yessir. The Perfect City"

  • @CityPlannerPlays
    @CityPlannerPlays 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Haha, love this idea! This is going to be good!

    • @ocarina0001
      @ocarina0001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      LMAO YOU'RE HERE???

    • @taylorschmidt2868
      @taylorschmidt2868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This brings me a lot of joy.

    • @SatiZakito
      @SatiZakito 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO YOU'RE HERE???

    • @Amir-jn5mo
      @Amir-jn5mo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      such a hilarious concept. I would love to see you attempt is as well :D

  • @icarus313
    @icarus313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    0% tax city: achieved! And all it took was an immense toll on our physical and psychological well-being.
    (Just try to ignore the smoking crater at the edge of town)

  • @AllanPrest
    @AllanPrest 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    1:45 that truck turned left instead going straight 😂😂😂

  • @ceepert2153
    @ceepert2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    So what I learned:
    To have a tax free economy we would need to live in shacks at dirt roads. The coorperations running the theme parks would pretty much rule the country as all the revenue comes from them.
    Walking to work costs money. And at some point the trash and corpses would start to pile up everywhere ...
    *Insert Just in Ohio meme*

    • @junova7503
      @junova7503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Pretty much. Some people in the comments have stated in a Libertarian society private companies would build and maintain the roads but I've yet to see why they would do so as well, they're a private company and thus exist to make money. Meaning pretty much profit gouging tolls.

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@junova7503 There's a city in India that's basically completely run by corporations. They did actually build their own private infrastructure and services (streets, a subway system, a police force, firefighters) but only built those things where their customers (wealthy corporate types)were. Other parts of the city are absolute shitholes with unpaved roads. Also, since there isn't a sewage system in the entire city, buildings (even the luxury apartments in the wealthy neighborhoods) have septic tanks which are emptied by trucks who dump everything in the river. Here's a video about it th-cam.com/video/uD0bR7JXI6k/w-d-xo.html

    • @junova7503
      @junova7503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@KarlSnarks Lmao perfect. Reminds me of Disney World in Florida. It was granted authority to govern itself by Florida and have their own firefighters, police, etc yet only like 40% of the employees can afford dental care. Obviously not as bad as that city you mentioned but given how much income Disney World generates...

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@junova7503 "Profit gouging tolls"
      How do you define what's profit gouging or not? In reality, the more competition there is, the lower the profits of the competitors because they must charge reasonable rates to remain attractive. Service providers in more attractive areas may be able to charge more as there is more demand, but they still must keep their rates reasonable or lose business.
      Also Disney is a poor example as people want to work there not for the money but because they want the chance to be part of it. It's similar to volunteers in a military who are being sent to die but think they're part of some greater good.

    • @TheRestedOne
      @TheRestedOne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or do some reading on company towns of the 18/1900s.
      Some functioned very successfully, like Hershey, PA.

  • @hamzs_hm
    @hamzs_hm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    You're definitely my favourite city building amphibian

    • @PushingDownDaisys
      @PushingDownDaisys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Godzilla is my favourite city unbuilding amphibian.

  • @faytleingod1851
    @faytleingod1851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    No taxes.
    Just smells like taxes with more steps.
    Good on ya mate! 👍🤠

  • @eclipseeffigy
    @eclipseeffigy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +663

    I used to think libertarian ideals were naive, but now I realize the value of guided meteor impacts! Also, charging for the road like it's monopoly & every step lands you on someone else's property. 😂

    • @noellelavenza
      @noellelavenza 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dylanswift5185 They were talking about the board game Monopoly, buddy.

    • @Finnishnat-conservativedot7126
      @Finnishnat-conservativedot7126 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It does make me laugh when people think that libertarian ideology is something you are able to express on limited game mechanics...
      Welp as some say, without a fool life is hard.

    • @MrE03-f6d
      @MrE03-f6d ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126There was a game that they did implement zero tax and it worked better than any other system they tried. Can't remember the name unfortunately or I would share it (saw it on TH-cam years ago).

    • @tigers3748
      @tigers3748 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey cool, another guy who's never actually talked to Libertarians.

    • @J0k3rz
      @J0k3rz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MrE03-f6dhow did they start the game with zero taxes?? Oh wait u can’t. Literally libertarianism ideals fall short at the first step

  • @User37285
    @User37285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Can’t wait for my city to adopt this system so no more taxes! Already bought a season pass to the amusement park and moved right next door to our city landfill 😊

  • @GrandPrix46
    @GrandPrix46 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Dude I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Absolutely hilarious video. Please never stop doing this.

    • @Albergarri788
      @Albergarri788 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm still laughing while reading comments XD

  • @Pacca64
    @Pacca64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I once ruined one of my cities by kicking out all the residents by cutting off services and raising taxes, then managed to fund the remains of the massive ghost town with a fishing industry, despite no longer getting any tax money. Was pretty goofy X3

  • @Otterinheaven
    @Otterinheaven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "Thereby Doubling out monthly tax income" - Wait a minute.

  • @nathishvel5725
    @nathishvel5725 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know, it is currently August 2023 and there indeed was a great fire...

  • @cmarquino
    @cmarquino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    We may have no proper sanitation, a poorly educated population, meteors, and have to pay $400 to get to work, but at least we're free 💪😤

    • @matthewchinmingwei6721
      @matthewchinmingwei6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Now hold on a damn second, that sounds really familiar somehow...

    • @bajablast_off
      @bajablast_off 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *F R E E D O M*

  • @becca125
    @becca125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    The dirt road parts had me laughing a lot 😂

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is realistic, nobody wants to pay for a road, but everybody needs a road.

    • @塔兰克里格
      @塔兰克里格 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      libertarian moment

  • @awoodpecker4922
    @awoodpecker4922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    9:37 Man had such an authentic city simulator experience he even went through conspiracies

  • @benb9151
    @benb9151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Should we program a scenario in which walking to and from work is higher than the wages the person will make?"

  • @TheBorkLaser
    @TheBorkLaser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is a really good video. And while posting this comment costed me 200$, I paid them out of my own free will.
    Truly the most evolved societal system of them all

  • @skeleton-bat
    @skeleton-bat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This is actually a really great video to explain and show to people WHY taxes are needed and why it's bad when rich people get out paying their taxes.

    • @Frille512
      @Frille512 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No it isn't lol, it's a video game

    • @wilforddraper1894
      @wilforddraper1894 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@Frille512Ur right tho. We don't need a video game in order to understand libertarian ideals are impossible and horrible to live under.

    • @matheusacoliveira
      @matheusacoliveira ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​​​@@wilforddraper1894in cities skylines there is no: private Hospitals, private traffic, private cemetery services, private schools, private aiports, private ports... that's why in the game a city doesn't work without taxes

    • @felonyferretuwu
      @felonyferretuwu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wilforddraper1894 a game made by libtards ofc it wont work, how can society exist without daddy government doing stuff???? government is a magician, without them the private sector who literally sends shit to mars wont be able to pour down 5cm thick asphalt on ground

  • @mozzqueen96
    @mozzqueen96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    You've got me on a management game kick! I want to give this game a try despite it being a little overwhelming for me. Thanks for inspiring me!

    • @TheAxeaman
      @TheAxeaman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I recently picked it up through the Steam Winter sales. Highly addicting.

  • @whoknows4780
    @whoknows4780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Building mandatory toll roads everywhere in a city sounds like taxes lol

    • @Altermerea
      @Altermerea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Completely voluntary - nobody is forcing them to drive there!

    • @fang4223
      @fang4223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Hey now, it's only fair they contribute to the services they're choosing to use.

    • @DebasedAnon
      @DebasedAnon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Can you go "I don't need X service provided by the government in exchange for my taxes therefore I wont pay the taxes" without getting screwed legally?

    • @elfarlaur
      @elfarlaur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DebasedAnon no

    • @snintendog
      @snintendog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hey know no need to throw shad on New york city and their lovely tolls

  • @nathanlamberth7631
    @nathanlamberth7631 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it's just perfect. that final shot with the crater and the fire, but no taxes. Definitely no taxes

  • @Kibato123
    @Kibato123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    6:35 ambiguousamphibian builds a slightly less chaotic version of Orlando

  • @greatfrito
    @greatfrito 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Truly the amusement-park-and-meteor-based economy we all deserve.

  • @skoltyacatch84
    @skoltyacatch84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The difference is that the dump would be run by a private company so you wouldn't need taxes

  • @erg_ot
    @erg_ot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A high point in ambiguousamphibian city sim videos - and that's saying something.

  • @daviddavidson505
    @daviddavidson505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There has got to be a libertarianism mod that just dumps all the government service buildings into zoning structures. A truly RNG-based experience until the city learns to take care of itself, so long as the heavy hand of the state supplies the roads. A truly libertarian experience.

  • @Tiogar60
    @Tiogar60 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    would be interesting if you could just press a switch and allow privately owned public services, effectively just sitting back and enjoying things getting taken cared of for free

  • @NightshadeDt
    @NightshadeDt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Ah, yes, good to see that parks are still perfectly balanced.
    In all seriousness, I love these kind of videos. Keep up the good work, aa.

  • @callumlackie4166
    @callumlackie4166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:44
    You expect me to believe in a no-tax city, NO corporations appeared? You'd be tripping over them from the word go in the real world

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They probably smelled the toll exploit from a mile away. After all you cant scam a scammer

  • @runtergerutscht4401
    @runtergerutscht4401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The people: "No taxation without representation"
    Ambiguousamphibian: "are you sure about that?"

  • @FeCyrineu
    @FeCyrineu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I feel like this challenge would be reasonably possible if you heavily rely in the industries DLC. That way you could have no taxes because all the industry is state-owned!

    • @android19willpwn
      @android19willpwn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      the true libertarian dream!

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      “that way you could have no taxes because all the industry is state-owned”
      exhibit 28140985 of libertarians not realizing the only materially viable method of fulfilling their dreams requires one of the various leftist ideologies
      (i do get that this is a joke tho, kek)

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Just rename the state to "Governance Inc." and suddenly propertarians would have no argument.

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@hedgehog3180 i prefer the term "lolbertarians" but that works too

    • @zigoter2185
      @zigoter2185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hedgehog3180 what a deep understanding of opposing views (no).

  • @boggo3848
    @boggo3848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I can't help but feel all the efforts to make money in this attempt actually are basically just taxation though hahaha.

  • @completedsage8215
    @completedsage8215 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Morty: "This is just s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ taxes with extra steps"

  • @thejynxedlynx5570
    @thejynxedlynx5570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Ah yes, the best way to make a tax-free city: by instating a system of not mandatory but extremely compulsory fines that are unavoidable in modern daily life. Libertarianism at work, and it's surely beautiful.

    • @dajdasdq
      @dajdasdq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      bro, it's just a video game. and there's no way to implement private services that would replace usual ones in the game.

  • @OrgusDin
    @OrgusDin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm shocked the crematorium is so expensive in this game since burning large numbers of bodies is so cheap and feasible while fighting a multi front war without any fuel (with people that refuse to pay the entrance fee at the quadruple amusement park road in of course.) Minor gripe, probably nothing.

  • @mchaggis615
    @mchaggis615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My addiction to Amphibian-based TH-cam Content is insatiable

  • @lucascorreadl
    @lucascorreadl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Like Edison said... he did not failed 130 times to invent the lightbulb, he discovered 130 ways of not inventing it

    • @dusklunistheumbreon
      @dusklunistheumbreon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Mostly because Edison didn't invent a single thing lmao

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tbf thats expected when you refuse to pay 130 people to do it for you

  • @JohnMitchellCalif
    @JohnMitchellCalif 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    that was hilarious! As a resident of California I am curious about the "no personal income tax" world of Texas and other states...

  • @mrphysics2625
    @mrphysics2625 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the greatest cities skylines video ive ever seen lmfao

  • @pbug867
    @pbug867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I don't play alot of video games. My husband, a gamer at heart, would watch your videos and it was the sound of your voice and your witty writing that drew me in and now I'm hooked. Now we watch your videos together ❤ Your videos always make me laugh!

  • @SirChris314
    @SirChris314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I regret to inform you that you've simply created Orlando, Florida

  • @adrake161
    @adrake161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Finally, the ancap paradise we’ve been looking for!

    • @LawrenceTimme
      @LawrenceTimme ปีที่แล้ว

      Fail, it was all centrally planned 😂😂

  • @onlyinsomniac
    @onlyinsomniac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    2023 should be the year of standardized save file sorting systems across all video games.
    Let me make subfolders, dangit!!

    • @bane9951
      @bane9951 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We could use the blockchain to used uploaded cloud saves and import them into any video game, we could play any save file in any game and it would only cost a few bitcoins, let's hop on this already

  • @Butter_Warrior99
    @Butter_Warrior99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Vergil: I’m moving there.

    • @Torodes23
      @Torodes23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Still gotta pay child support though

    • @Butter_Warrior99
      @Butter_Warrior99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Torodes23, He’ll never pay as long as he lives.

    • @Leofwine
      @Leofwine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vergil? The Roman poet?

  • @InceRumul
    @InceRumul ปีที่แล้ว

    At last we know why the dinosaurs are extinct: they paid no taxes and SOMEBODY had to take out the garbage.

  • @plasmathrower
    @plasmathrower 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    claims its a 0% tax city, accidentally calls the theme park admission revenue "taxes"

  • @rkadi6540
    @rkadi6540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have the skill to be a city planner, the true visionary city planner

  • @nilsp9426
    @nilsp9426 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The "amusement park" walks absolutely killed me 💀

  • @ShawnMeira
    @ShawnMeira ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bro literally predicted the fires in Hawaii (August 2023)

  • @chaosknighthd3138
    @chaosknighthd3138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This takes death and taxes to a new level

  • @kkc_oct
    @kkc_oct 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sir, i never wanted to pay tax ever as much as i want to after watching this video.

  • @nooneinparticular9837
    @nooneinparticular9837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how there are people out there who unironically believe this would work

    • @zigoter2185
      @zigoter2185 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean by "this"?

    • @nooneinparticular9837
      @nooneinparticular9837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zigoter2185 libertarianism

    • @Stiegelzeine
      @Stiegelzeine 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it works in the usa, it just absolutely sucks

  • @calebjordan3116
    @calebjordan3116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    wake up guys it's time for a new banger ambiguous amphibian video!

  • @paracosm-cc
    @paracosm-cc ปีที่แล้ว

    A tax-free city that costs 200 dollars to walk around in sounds like the peak of the american dream

  • @amensentis
    @amensentis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I usually do a similar thing in my serious cities. Parks make great separators between noisy areas like highways and businesses and residential, so often make many long thin parks. This often ends with the park being the shortest path. Beautiful and nice :)