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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8809735" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I mean, I agree with paying taxes, and pay my taxes happily, and take a very dim view of people who skip out on their bill. I find the mindset that taxes are some onerous burden to be egregiously anti-social. Recrimination is a direct personal consequence in a setting wherein all participation is voluntary as described here.  Losing access to trade partners in the citadel, eventually becoming unwelcome there entirely, would be a catastrophic loss. You also cited upthread some very strange idea that immigrant populations don’t have anti-crime social pressure and moral culture? What on Earth!? Have you ever lived in a mostly immigrant community? Do you realize that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than natural born citizens in nearly every case in the world, IRL? It’s an optimistic space city. One of the things that it assumes is that people in such a place would behave differently than RL humans in our present and past, but…that’s a safe assumption. Environment changes behavior. Changes in social structure change behavior. People are very adaptable. And there probably are people who skip out on paying their taxes. And when confronted by their peers, most of them get it together and stop acting like selfish children.</blockquote>