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.
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
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
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
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"
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.
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
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.
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".
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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%.
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*
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.
@@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
@@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...
@@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.
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.
@@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
@@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
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. 😂
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.
@@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).
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)
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 😊
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.
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
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
If I understand this correctly, there is no possibility of establishing private security service providers, medical matters etc. via a contract system. That could be done by the courts. “Work” would then be these private entities and competition would also be allowed. The game doesn't allow for that. Security, medicine, fire departments, education are always in demand. It is only a simulation and can only roughly reflect the extent of human activity.
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?
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!
“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)
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.
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.
The amusement park strategy would work better if they were all in one park, as people pay to enter via side gates. Also, you need just enough in the way of attractions in the park zone to make it reach level 5, so you can charge even more money. I once had a city with that setup, and the park had 10 pairs of gates, and my park was making over $1 million per week. My city’s population was only around 30,000, if I remember correctly.
@@4rumani Never heard of that before from any of my Libertarian friends. If anything they want all pedophiles to be given the death penalty. Is that from the Libertarian Party or something?
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
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
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!
Just because you don't use a service directly doesn't mean you don't benefit from living in a country that provides that service. The person who made your coffee got to work on the bus. The person who does your taxes went to public school. If every service was funded privately, the only people with access to decent roads, transportation, education, medical care, etc would be the people who could already afford it. Taxes are a prerequisite to having a well developed nation and ironically they ensure equity and freedom (when executed properly).
As fun as the game portion is, the real-life idea is incredibly stupid. Every person uses every service. That is why everyone pays for them. Don't have a car? You still use the roads, because all your food and goods use them. Don't have kids? You still use public education, because other people being educated is a direct benefit to you.
that's why libertarianism and its derivatives are a literal child ideology. a child is naive and has no vision for the future other than very short-term, basically the same as a libertarian. libertarians are about the same about taxes as children are about eating vegetables: they don't (or can't) understand that you need them to function, but if you rebrand it under a different name (whatever thing that makes it seem like a tiny voluntary donation for libertarians, and using a fast food bag and naming the vegetables "superfood" or something like that for the children) then they won't say a thing and they'll happily participate, even if they end up paying even more or eating more vegetables at the end, as long as you don't use that name they hate ("taxes" for libertarians, "vegetables" for children).
8:01 My town in a nutshell. There's one hotel that has changed owners like 3 times because the new one had no idea how to actually run it, shut it down, and then a new owner came in, and within 1-2 years pulled the same shit.
I wonder if this game is advanced enough to make people's willingness to pay $200 to go these "theme parks" be influenced by the fact they're paying $0 taxes everywhere else. Or if you could just do this in every game you play, taxes or not. Either way, great video as always mate. Keep em coming
taxes could be replaced with "subscription fees" for most things you could just pick and choose why would i want a post office when I can just choose a courrier service, faster and cheaper, not to mention more secure
@@10011110011 I personally believe many services can be folded together like the internal revenue service could be combined with the postal service since the irs needs to know where people are and sometimes needs to send you physical documents and also postal offices can resume banking services at cost like they used to
germany: "give us money for watching tv!" "but i dont even have a tv" "do you have acess to the internet?" "yes" "pay up loser, you could watch tv over the internet" "but i dont, cuz its shit" "you still could, now give us your money"
This is why we need a crowd funding mod but I'm too dumb to know how to code it. There are a few mods that add supercheap services buildings, generally designed for Ancient, Roman and fantasy styles. Those actually work to cut costs.
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 :)
'Pays 200 bucks everyday to walk from one side of town to the other'
"Thank god there are no taxes in this free city!"
this is how people play free to play games with microtransactions
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
Even states/countries with no income tax "appear" this way. They get them out of you another way, they always do ;)
If I had to pay $200 every time I left my house I would be paying less tax then I am right now
@@SoManyZubats doubtful that’s 73000 a year in fees, unless your making over 200k a year
I love that your solution was essentially "taxing" people but not calling it "taxes" by way of "amusement park" entrance fees in between locations
He could be a president at this point
Pretty much how real right libertarianism would work in practice
He even slipped up and called them taxes, lol
It's almost like taxes are inevitable or something if you want to upkeep infrastructure and services or something
@@elvingearmasterirma7241Cospaia and Acadia would beg to differ
incredible, he managed to invent pedestrian toll booths
Coming to America in 2024
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.
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
they didn't model fueless inexpensive cosmic energy reactor into the game, which is available since 1950.
When society is failing, call the walk to work an amusement ride.
This video is basically 'city skylines without taxes'
step one: how to disguise taxes
Step one is literally every country out there lol
Even "libertarian paradises" would have to start taxing eventually. They just wouldn't call it taxes.
@@burnttoast26 "Regular Sustenance Payments"
@@burnttoast26 RENT
My compliments to you
Ambiguous is gonna get in a lot of trouble when the meteor of August 2024 hits
Lol
A suspiciously small meteor hitting a landfill
He's also going to get in trouble if there's a big fire in August 2023
@@Godsire well, from last summer experience, I guess the only matter will be to know which one he was talking about
@@JoFriedrich depressingly true
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
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
Must have missed the entire intro lmao
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"
florida
Smart working
Remote workers rise up!!
The people of the city: "isn't this just taxes with extra steps?"
AA: "no...." *Summons meteors from the heavens*
Taking a fee for walking through the city = taxes with extra steps (nice)
NYC does this. Try entering or leaving without paying tolls. And that's on top of absurdly high taxes for sketchy services at best.
@@badlaamaurukehu probably cuz nyc a big city and actually needs money 😱
@@fewkeyfewkey5414 it's because NYC is hell on earth
"Don't question it."
-AA Probably
"They're not taxes, they're tolls."
"What's a toll?"
"A tax."
EA: These are not Lootboxes, they are surprise mechanics
AA: These are not taxes, they are tollroads and semi-forced amusementpark fees.
Sounds like New York.
This isn't a shipping fee, it's free shipping locked behind a monthly subscription.
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.
@@renakunisaki that's just Amazon Prime
@@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.
I love how he goes full circle and refers to the amusement parks as "tax income" at 8:41
Thought i was the only one who noticed that.
Yea I noticed too. Its hilarious
The mask slips!
Freudian Slip
Literally
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
Hell yeah, civil war era New York baby!
Like Marcus Crassus🪙
@@MM-vs2etwat
Based and free marketpilled
cyberpunk edgerunners ambulance be like
Taxation is theft, and the right to choose to commute through a series of expensive yet barren amusement parks to survive is FREEDOM
Now this guy gets it
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.
@@TheAxeaman wrong
And in the great words of the most American William Wallace "FRRREEEEEDOOOOOM"
@@squidwardo7074 wrong?
the government secretly redirecting meteors to blow up problem areas sounds like a great movie plot lmao
That is the inciting incident of Starship Troopers
and a great real life plot, its basically happened already, just on a smaller scale
@@squidwardo7074 yeah except they used planes instead of meteors
Sounds like a plot for The Bad Guys 2.
I remember a movie similar coming out around 2001
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".
...And unintentionally created a libertarian utopia in the process
Hello mister
Hiii
Love this new vid!
Anarchism go brr
Hello there
I like how you replaced residential, commercial and industrial taxes, only to replace them with a high tax on walking to work...
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.
@@Eventide215 Guess ill need to live in my business which is my work. Elon Musk style.
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.
It's not a Tax, it's a Toll!
@@PushingDownDaisys you mean living out the back of his car given his shit deal to buy twitter xD
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
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
100% chance this is a warhammer40k story.
Putin did something like this to justify Ch3chen w2r
"WHY ARE YOU ANGRY THE TRASH IS GONE ISNT IT!!!"
And dead bodies
You basically invented Disney World a few times. A privately run city that's largely amusement parks with large entrance fees.
Except Disneyland doesn't deal with dead people
@@samuelmade5776 not that we know of
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.
@@samuelmade5776 oh they definitely have some skeletons in their closet
@@samuelmade5776 With how many people visit the park they definitely do.
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.
Or work more hours
I love it how the videos are so chaotic compared to livestreams
AA: *Calls first two cities as dumpster fire*
Third city: *Ah yes let me show you true fire*
And the final city has its problems solved with a sort of dumpster fire.
Its like when a bill doesn't have a tax, but does have a "convenience charge".
This feels like a setting for a dystopian novel, written by someone who thinks its utopian for some reason.
Bruh stop Ayn Rand is already dead
@@sakuuuto yeah, that's one mercy we all get.
*Welcome to Rapture City. No gods, no king, only man.*
Nobody said that
@@thebiggestcheems Not really, Rand is like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving.
Time to validate my entire economic belief system by watching a lizard man play a city simulation video game.
Based
@chad007. Based.
And it only took 5 attempts! That surely validates all your long-held socioeconomic and political views
Edit: What have I started?
@@jmdibonaventuro Cospaia seemed to get it the first try...
@@theakbars98 ...The tiny microstate that was desolved in 1826?
9:00 One of the best lines I have ever heard.
The morale of the story is there's always a tax. Sometimes it just goes by a different name.
Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and chirpyland
The moral of the story is that tax lowers morale.
some times that name is "meteor of august 2024"
Well, the difference is that you're forced to pay tax, if you don't pay it you're gonna go to jail.
And a lot of the ways you can make the tax not look like a tax are extremely inconvenient, inefficient, and unsustainable.
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
🤣🤣
"When do we get to the ride?"
"This IS the ride! Yippeeeee!"
I keep reading this and it's making me lose my shit lmaooo
No taxes.
Just smells like taxes with more steps.
Good on ya mate! 👍🤠
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.
I dont even live in America and I did a laugh/sob at that
Yeah, or states with no income tax that have absurd sales tax, property tax, and "use tax". But hey! No income tax.
@@PushingDownDaisys thankfully they don't do that
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.
sadly, we pay both. :(
My favorite part about the jet ski ride pavilion is how the water is 30 feet below the pier
It doubles as a Tower drop ride that way
the thrill is figuring out how to not die from the jetski fall
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!!!!
The daisy chain of amusement parks that are actually just a path is hilarious 😂
Have you ever done a 99% tax challenge? I would love to see the other side of the extreme
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.
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%.
It happened in reality in India, thats how common people learned how to evade tax
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.
@@itzswedieThat's not how anyone calculates taxes.
The great fire of August 2023 is starting to sound ominous
Haha, love this idea! This is going to be good!
LMAO YOU'RE HERE???
This brings me a lot of joy.
LMAO YOU'RE HERE???
such a hilarious concept. I would love to see you attempt is as well :D
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*
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.
@@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
@@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...
@@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.
Or do some reading on company towns of the 18/1900s.
Some functioned very successfully, like Hershey, PA.
Finally, a truly American city.
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.
“That burned down, fell over, THEN sank into the swamp. But the _fourth_ one, stayed OOP!”
but faaaaather! I don't want to get married!
@@SALEENS7GTR5 Don’t want her?! 🤬 What’s wrong with her?! She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got yuuuuuuuge…
…
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Tracts of land!
Dude I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Absolutely hilarious video. Please never stop doing this.
I'm still laughing while reading comments XD
Needs a toll booth in every citizens’s driveway 😂
You're definitely my favourite city building amphibian
Godzilla is my favourite city unbuilding amphibian.
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.
No it isn't lol, it's a video game
@@Frille512Ur right tho. We don't need a video game in order to understand libertarian ideals are impossible and horrible to live under.
@@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
@@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
I love the commentary on these videos so much--just the deadpan delivery cracks me up every single time
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. 😂
@@dylanswift5185 They were talking about the board game Monopoly, buddy.
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.
@@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).
Hey cool, another guy who's never actually talked to Libertarians.
@@ericdugal8818how did they start the game with zero taxes?? Oh wait u can’t. Literally libertarianism ideals fall short at the first step
ancapistan achieved. thank you for doing god's work
We may have no proper sanitation, a poorly educated population, meteors, and have to pay $400 to get to work, but at least we're free 💪😤
Now hold on a damn second, that sounds really familiar somehow...
*F R E E D O M*
0% tax city: achieved! And all it took was an immense toll on our physical and psychological well-being.
(Just try to ignore the smoking crater at the edge of town)
The "amusement park" walks absolutely killed me 💀
Can’t wait for my city to adopt this system so no more taxes! Already bought a season pass to the amusement park and moved right next door to our city landfill 😊
"Thereby Doubling out monthly tax income" - Wait a minute.
There has got to be a libertarianism mod that just dumps all the government service buildings into zoning structures. A truly RNG-based experience until the city learns to take care of itself, so long as the heavy hand of the state supplies the roads. A truly libertarian experience.
I once ruined one of my cities by kicking out all the residents by cutting off services and raising taxes, then managed to fund the remains of the massive ghost town with a fishing industry, despite no longer getting any tax money. Was pretty goofy X3
"You want me to pay 5% more in income tax for healthcare? Uhhhhh no thanks I would rather pay 15% in a private market"
More like 150%, if you look at costs for Americans vs literally any developed country on earth
@@StalkTheHype capitalism, i bet if hospitals gave realistic prices it would be payable for normal people.
@@StalkTheHype Yeah 'cus it's not like healthcare is extensively regulated in the US
something something government regulation artificially limits amount of healthcare workers and services something something free market good something something I'm gay
@gta1kev nope, I live in Poland where public healthcare is 100% free. But if you choose a private healing then it's still not that cheap.
9:37 Man had such an authentic city simulator experience he even went through conspiracies
This is a really good video. And while posting this comment costed me 200$, I paid them out of my own free will.
Truly the most evolved societal system of them all
The dirt road parts had me laughing a lot 😂
It is realistic, nobody wants to pay for a road, but everybody needs a road.
libertarian moment
The people: "No taxation without representation"
Ambiguousamphibian: "are you sure about that?"
"Should we program a scenario in which walking to and from work is higher than the wages the person will make?"
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!
I recently picked it up through the Steam Winter sales. Highly addicting.
If I understand this correctly, there is no possibility of establishing private security service providers, medical matters etc. via a contract system. That could be done by the courts. “Work” would then be these private entities and competition would also be allowed. The game doesn't allow for that. Security, medicine, fire departments, education are always in demand.
It is only a simulation and can only roughly reflect the extent of human activity.
Building mandatory toll roads everywhere in a city sounds like taxes lol
Completely voluntary - nobody is forcing them to drive there!
Hey now, it's only fair they contribute to the services they're choosing to use.
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?
@@DebasedAnon no
hey know no need to throw shad on New york city and their lovely tolls
6:35 ambiguousamphibian builds a slightly less chaotic version of Orlando
LMFAO
this is the greatest cities skylines video ive ever seen lmfao
I regret to inform you that you've simply created Orlando, Florida
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!
the true libertarian dream!
“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)
Just rename the state to "Governance Inc." and suddenly propertarians would have no argument.
@@hedgehog3180 i prefer the term "lolbertarians" but that works too
@@hedgehog3180 what a deep understanding of opposing views (no).
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.
bro, it's just a video game. and there's no way to implement private services that would replace usual ones in the game.
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.
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.
I can't help but feel all the efforts to make money in this attempt actually are basically just taxation though hahaha.
Truly the amusement-park-and-meteor-based economy we all deserve.
A high point in ambiguousamphibian city sim videos - and that's saying something.
The amusement park strategy would work better if they were all in one park, as people pay to enter via side gates. Also, you need just enough in the way of attractions in the park zone to make it reach level 5, so you can charge even more money. I once had a city with that setup, and the park had 10 pairs of gates, and my park was making over $1 million per week. My city’s population was only around 30,000, if I remember correctly.
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
They probably smelled the toll exploit from a mile away. After all you cant scam a scammer
You forgot the *real* way to get Libertarian's to come pay to be in your city - lowering the age of consent.
That's just politicians in general
@@complimentbot7015 No, libertarians actually believe in abolishing the age of consent.
@@4rumani right wing politicians being outed as pedophiles is not uncommon
@@4rumani Never heard of that before from any of my Libertarian friends. If anything they want all pedophiles to be given the death penalty. Is that from the Libertarian Party or something?
that was hilarious! As a resident of California I am curious about the "no personal income tax" world of Texas and other states...
2023 should be the year of standardized save file sorting systems across all video games.
Let me make subfolders, dangit!!
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
Vergil: I’m moving there.
Still gotta pay child support though
@@Torodes23, He’ll never pay as long as he lives.
Vergil? The Roman poet?
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
Here is a complement. You did a good job.
I love how there are people out there who unironically believe this would work
What do you mean by "this"?
@@zigoter2185 libertarianism
claims its a 0% tax city, accidentally calls the theme park admission revenue "taxes"
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!
You have the skill to be a city planner, the true visionary city planner
Just because you don't use a service directly doesn't mean you don't benefit from living in a country that provides that service. The person who made your coffee got to work on the bus. The person who does your taxes went to public school. If every service was funded privately, the only people with access to decent roads, transportation, education, medical care, etc would be the people who could already afford it. Taxes are a prerequisite to having a well developed nation and ironically they ensure equity and freedom (when executed properly).
Like Edison said... he did not failed 130 times to invent the lightbulb, he discovered 130 ways of not inventing it
Mostly because Edison didn't invent a single thing lmao
Tbf thats expected when you refuse to pay 130 people to do it for you
As fun as the game portion is, the real-life idea is incredibly stupid.
Every person uses every service. That is why everyone pays for them.
Don't have a car? You still use the roads, because all your food and goods use them.
Don't have kids? You still use public education, because other people being educated is a direct benefit to you.
Ultimately it's a test of how short-sighted a person is.
that's why libertarianism and its derivatives are a literal child ideology. a child is naive and has no vision for the future other than very short-term, basically the same as a libertarian. libertarians are about the same about taxes as children are about eating vegetables: they don't (or can't) understand that you need them to function, but if you rebrand it under a different name (whatever thing that makes it seem like a tiny voluntary donation for libertarians, and using a fast food bag and naming the vegetables "superfood" or something like that for the children) then they won't say a thing and they'll happily participate, even if they end up paying even more or eating more vegetables at the end, as long as you don't use that name they hate ("taxes" for libertarians, "vegetables" for children).
Finally, the ancap paradise we’ve been looking for!
Fail, it was all centrally planned 😂😂
8:01 My town in a nutshell. There's one hotel that has changed owners like 3 times because the new one had no idea how to actually run it, shut it down, and then a new owner came in, and within 1-2 years pulled the same shit.
My addiction to Amphibian-based TH-cam Content is insatiable
The difference is that the dump would be run by a private company so you wouldn't need taxes
I wonder if this game is advanced enough to make people's willingness to pay $200 to go these "theme parks" be influenced by the fact they're paying $0 taxes everywhere else. Or if you could just do this in every game you play, taxes or not.
Either way, great video as always mate. Keep em coming
"Or if you could just do this in every game you play, taxes or not." you could
You could but it doesn't give much money
My sincerest compliments, Mr. Amphibian. A fabulous job, as always. I would expect no less from your masterwork.
This takes death and taxes to a new level
Aww, what creative ways to make life *easier* for your citizens, this is much more fun than paying those icky icky taxes ❤😊
I love paying taxes I hate when my taxes go to things that don't actually help anyone. Who doesn't love the post office?
taxes could be replaced with "subscription fees" for most things
you could just pick and choose
why would i want a post office when I can just choose a courrier service, faster and cheaper, not to mention more secure
@@10011110011 So everyone unsubscribes from the fire department until the moment their own house is on fire?
@@10011110011 I personally believe many services can be folded together like the internal revenue service could be combined with the postal service since the irs needs to know where people are and sometimes needs to send you physical documents and also postal offices can resume banking services at cost like they used to
germany: "give us money for watching tv!" "but i dont even have a tv" "do you have acess to the internet?" "yes" "pay up loser, you could watch tv over the internet" "but i dont, cuz its shit" "you still could, now give us your money"
@@chrisbeer5685 and pay the fine unless they can solve it themselves
you know, community and shit like centuries ago
This is why we need a crowd funding mod but I'm too dumb to know how to code it. There are a few mods that add supercheap services buildings, generally designed for Ancient, Roman and fantasy styles. Those actually work to cut costs.
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 :)