"The desire to emigrate is so strong that people simply phase through walls, reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's hierachy of needs, is the physiological requirement for a human being to evade taxation."
@Dell-ol6hb Жыл бұрын
Simply incredible
@wjrjbnjd Жыл бұрын
Hey hey people
@traineebot Жыл бұрын
Ancient Eqyptian was right
@korhol2065 Жыл бұрын
Only thing left were hacking wild animals
@dash0468 Жыл бұрын
@@traineebotilluminaty save them😂😂
@ArkayeCh Жыл бұрын
> high taxes > high employment > zero local residents > everyone either commutes from outside the sector via public transport or works remotely > zero advanced municipal services > surprisingly happy business advisors Congratulations, you just created a Dutch business park.
@Vaelosh466 Жыл бұрын
Or the Reedy Creek Improvement District (the area Disney World occupies).
@wesleykoekoek31224 ай бұрын
Sounds more like Amsterdam to me
@gmatsue84Ай бұрын
You mean Amsterdam?
@cicalinarrot Жыл бұрын
I love like, when there are literally zero houses, ALL people working in the public stuff, including your advisors, are either commuting from somewhere else or smart-working.
@Aska2468 Жыл бұрын
Also including him. The population is 0, even the mayor refuses to live there.
@blammo5226 Жыл бұрын
Government officials are property, not people
@liamvanniekerk1814 Жыл бұрын
Well yeah. Sims would drive out of town to work, it's pretty neat
@user-rv8yv4yh9n Жыл бұрын
Not even _they_ want to pay taxes
@jacksonduruy4303 Жыл бұрын
This is part of the plot of True Detective Season 2. Some town in California lowers it's industrial regulations so low that a bunch of factories move in, like 2/3s of their workers have to be bussed in cuz nobody wants to live in that polluted shithole.
@lui5gif Жыл бұрын
*Run for Senator* is an incredible end to a bankrupt city, I can't believe I never noticed they or completely forgot about it
@kontenterrorist2449 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't surprise me if this was a running gag in the series based on an actual story. Similar to the Dan Quayle gag in each Civ game.
@chet6286 Жыл бұрын
The John Fetterman method
@rustyshackleford1508 Жыл бұрын
Your advisors were happy because with no town they were getting paid to do nothing all day. The dream position of any government employee.
@zolda7179 Жыл бұрын
i think that's already their job description
@johng3029 Жыл бұрын
I feel like this is what the politicians in California are trying to accomplish lol
@rando5673 Жыл бұрын
@@johng3029 Luring in the people with high paying jobs (tech) and then doubling taxes. This is definitely California
@johng3029 Жыл бұрын
@rando5673 yeah I had that thought throughout the entire video haha
@oldschoolChazzed Жыл бұрын
the average position, really
@davisbowe8668 Жыл бұрын
That ending was probably one of the most realistic endings from your videos yet.
@Qwompus Жыл бұрын
Not calling it 'Taximum City' was a missed opportunity
@ShadowWolfRising Жыл бұрын
'Slow Clap'
@Cryten0 Жыл бұрын
Makes it sound closer to Minimum then Maximum.
@aksman4434 Жыл бұрын
Taximum Overdrive!
@petrabotha8314 Жыл бұрын
Maximus Taximus
@aluisious Жыл бұрын
@@Cryten0 No, it doesn't.
@LEEgner Жыл бұрын
I remember playing this game as a kid, asking my parents whats a normal tax rate, and then not understanding why I can't put it at 30% and just set it to 20%. Scandinavia lol
@pyrothelostone Жыл бұрын
Strangely enough, cities skylines, which is produced by he Swedish dev paradox, still has this problem with 13% tax basically being the limit people will accept long term.
@connor3284 Жыл бұрын
@@pyrothelostone Again, cities and state taxes are different. What is the tax you pay *to your local municipality* in Sweden? I'm guessing it is not as high as the tax you pay to the Swedish state itself.
@PlayerSlotAvailable Жыл бұрын
@@connor3284The municipality in Nordic countries do not pay for higher education or healthcare. If they did, municipal taxes would be higher.
@redwitch95 Жыл бұрын
@@connor3284 most countries don't require you to pay taxes to your municipality or do it very differently. In the UK, you either pay it to your city or county council, but that's a fixed amount based on how your property would've been valued in 1992. And even then, you get a discount if you only have one adult in your household. Even then, it doesn't pay for education or healthcare, it's for the local roads, rubbish collection, and public transport.
@EddSjo Жыл бұрын
@@connor3284 The municipality tax for where I live in Sweden is currently a little bit over 21%.
@robertcurry389 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes Sim City 4, the greatest of all economic simulators.
@OrgusDin Жыл бұрын
Insanely realistic.
@Talkshowhost23 Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile France: 60% tax and infinite demand
@Virulent-wolf Жыл бұрын
Considering this same guy did 0% taxes on another game over and over and called each save file failed libertarianism. Yeah I wonder how much stock he puts into thinking these games are accurate. Good meme though.
@stephendenis3855 Жыл бұрын
isnt this basically china tho
@parazitkolol Жыл бұрын
@@Virulent-wolfbutthurt libertarian spotted
@Dethflash Жыл бұрын
Moral of the story. When the city turns shitty, the rich people move away, and the poor people live with it till they die early.
@zORg_alex Жыл бұрын
You should have removed outside connections, so that rich wouldn't be able to leave.
@Skyte100 Жыл бұрын
One of SsethTzeentach's videos say that the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the innate need to evade taxation. So it wouldn't work based on this joke.
@RooseveltGuilherme Жыл бұрын
An Iron Curtain of sorts, then? lol
@octopode170 Жыл бұрын
@@RooseveltGuilherme What is an anthill to a man, but a bump in the dirt? What is a man to a world leader, but a number on a sheet? To answer your question, you must ask yourself; What is a Curtain of Iron to something capable of phasing through reality itself?
@thefool8224 Жыл бұрын
@@Skyte100 .phasing through walls to evade taxes
@James31USFPoly Жыл бұрын
Or space instead of walls.
@Quiet704 Жыл бұрын
If ambiguous was a book, it would be A Modest Proposal.
@ambiguousamphibian Жыл бұрын
That's a great essay haha
@goopguy548 Жыл бұрын
@@ambiguousamphibiangimme a kiss 💋
@naingaung2748 Жыл бұрын
You are what you eat.
@Human-hs8sp Жыл бұрын
A bug exists where if you have a roundabout between 4 cities at the corners (ie A-B then B -C, C -D and then D returns to A) A sim who lives in town A will commute to work, Through B, C, D, A, B, C, D... 1 car becomes '2' cars becomes '4' cars becomes '16' cars ... every time you load city A till the road is overwhelmed. The Sim drives forever being both the only traffic and infinite traffic.
@yourpalpalmetto979 Жыл бұрын
@elfrjz I'm pretty sure that's called an economic bubble
@KM-yw3ft Жыл бұрын
I wonder what would happen if you start with max tax in an empty region. Because the cities do interact so if they can move to a city with with lower taxes.
@acevaver5425 Жыл бұрын
Well, then we'd have to ask what the point of currency is. It's to easier facilitate trade, so, as long as you have natural resources to exploit, you can tax as much you want, provided your slaves are not dead and can work the next day. Therefore, if there are 10 apples, and you can print currency, you can call it 20%, or 200,000%, it'll still be the same amount of apples at the end of the day.
@Alignn Жыл бұрын
You give the simulation too much credit, citizens don't move anywhere in SC4, it's more like they spawn or despawn depending on how high desirability is.
@gawwad4073 Жыл бұрын
Living in Nordics I always found it so strange that the max tax was 20% in SimCity. I don't think I've ever had that low taxes lol
@PlayerSlotAvailable Жыл бұрын
Especially since these taxes pay for all the government programs such as power, water, education, healthcare, etc. Many of which municipal or property taxes do not pay for irl.
@eliaspanayi3465 Жыл бұрын
Wow, it's almost like taxation is theft and the reason governments make them so high is because of poor financial management and embezzling *cough* -i mean, yeah man that's crazy
@gawwad4073 Жыл бұрын
@@eliaspanayi3465 nah, taxes are great.
@eliaspanayi3465 Жыл бұрын
@@gawwad4073 ok fed
@PlayerSlotAvailable Жыл бұрын
@@eliaspanayi3465 Don't project the failings of your own third world country onto our successful developed country. Taxes here in the Nordics are low (I pay about 29%) and the government uses it to serve the people. Taxation is not a necessary evil, it is a necessary good, that helps fund our wonderful welfare state and the services and protection that it provides.
@TreDogOfficial Жыл бұрын
I didn't even know these metrics existed in SimCity. I got this game in a cereal box as a child. I never once ran a successful city
@Davidjune1970 Жыл бұрын
You can tell how unrealistic this game is when it doesn’t let you keep borrowing just by raising the debt ceiling and ignoring the consequences.
@babstra55 Жыл бұрын
it's a city builder, not a country builder. countries can make their own money literally from nothing.
@lookoutforchris Жыл бұрын
Cities cannot print money, only the federal government can.
@bubbanator3340 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Chicago Simulator.
@thesatelliteslickers907 Жыл бұрын
i mean the debt ceiling isnt actually debt in the way that you or i interact with a concept. at the scale of nations the idea of borrowing and debt and stuff is so out there and abstracted that moat of the "debt" the us has is debt it owes to itself. thats right. the us government is in debt to ITSELF by using economic theories you could not fathom
@Atylonisus Жыл бұрын
"economic" ""policy"" goes """BRRRRRRRRR"""
@Bary_McCokner Жыл бұрын
"... reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is the physiological requirement for a human being... to evade taxation." -Ssethtzeentach, "Pharaoh review"
@DIY_Miracle Жыл бұрын
Imagine living in a city where 20% tax rate is considered far too high
@Arkiasis Жыл бұрын
Keyword city. You're still paying federal and state/provincial taxes on top of that. A city with a 20% property/municipal tax would be insanity. Average property tax rates are around 1% for North America. Highest is around 2% in Illinois, NJ and Texas. And the lowest is oddly enough Vancouver at 0.2%.
@MisterBones2910 Жыл бұрын
@@Arkiasis You can thank the Chinese for Vancouver.
@thetayz72 Жыл бұрын
@@Arkiasis Probably because it's 0.2% of a $3,000,000 valuation for a shit shack
@PlayerSlotAvailable Жыл бұрын
@@ArkiasisDo property taxes pay for universities?
@aestheticsman2358 Жыл бұрын
@@ArkiasisWhere I live in Sweden, the city tax is about 33%…
@deaddymanny7309 Жыл бұрын
"If you build just a giant sweatshop and fill the whole land with factories... that's fine." Congratulations! You got the factory worlds from Warhammer 40K!
@dariohunski3640 Жыл бұрын
This is good, max taxes in-game are 20%, and the game decides that it is not worth living there xD And here in Croatia, taxes are 25%. My brain has a hard time processing this information
@TheSpoonyCroy Жыл бұрын
You would have to keep in mind this would also be a city tax, so a citizen would likely have to pay a state/province tax and a national tax.
@Protont Жыл бұрын
That's just money going to the goverment. If this city was in Croatia you eould be taxed 45%. Or close to Finland tax
@saddesklunch2544 Жыл бұрын
Simple answer: Croatia isn’t real. Don’t worry, you’ll come to your senses eventually Mx. “Croatian” /j
@Hobbyrepubliken Жыл бұрын
@@TheSpoonyCroyThats maybe how taxes work in the US but the large majority of my just under 30% taxes go to my city/commune/region. /Swede
@goopguy548 Жыл бұрын
Well the rich would just use loopholes. If Elon musk was forced to pay 20% he would leave the world if he had to
@seamon9732 Жыл бұрын
So you essentially found an exploit for massive amounts of seed money? Genius!
@KlausWulfenbach Жыл бұрын
My Max Tax City failed because Max never moved to my city and I ran out of money.
@MaxwellKasper Жыл бұрын
My bad, homie.
@MetalHev Жыл бұрын
People in simcity: "omfg 20% taxes, fucking outrageous" People irl: "omfg 50% taxes, we're so blessed"
@sirsage3311 Жыл бұрын
The frog sounds were a great touch to illustrate your internal thought process. 10/10
@sabretoo Жыл бұрын
Frog hive mind
@totodos Жыл бұрын
me, from england, seeing you start at 20% tax - "but that's...... the normal amount of tax"
@general_villagerture9818 Жыл бұрын
That is the city tax That does not factor in other taxes
@connor3284 Жыл бұрын
This is just the city tax, so a more accurate comparison would be to your council tax.
@PlayerSlotAvailable Жыл бұрын
@@connor3284The council does not build hospitals like you do in this game
@redwitch95 Жыл бұрын
@@PlayerSlotAvailable they also don't really fund schools any more since the Tories have incentivised a lot of schools to go from Local Educational Authority schools to academies. So it really is ridiculously low.
@bllasae Жыл бұрын
You need to have a single road to legalize gambling for them to roll dice on.
@easyBob100 Жыл бұрын
Man, those lucky sims....I wish we only paid 20%.
@anthonymudge9768 Жыл бұрын
It's only a property tax (maybe), there may be other taxes that Sims pay too :)
@zolda7179 Жыл бұрын
i also wish there were no schools, hospitals, railroads or roads
@neodymium2007 Жыл бұрын
Croatia 25% tax... + 25 to 40 fees.... welcome to hell
@GP950mAh Жыл бұрын
20% municipal tax, with state and federal taxes on top of that is definitly not lucky
@sheepherder911 Жыл бұрын
@@zolda7179 I'm not saying taxes don't pay for all four of those things, but your point is clearly hyperbolic on its face. Maybe not the majority, but the private sector has examples of funding those four examples you gave.
@Trinics Жыл бұрын
This man makes short narrated films and I find this niche of his so beautiful, so serene that I can’t stop myself from clicking on his videos. The combination of his majestic and slightly erotic voice make for an epic combination as sim city 4 gameplay runs in the background. Every video feels like a storyteller telling you tales of old as you sit in his lap. Just magnificent.
@sethd.83818 ай бұрын
3:12 going for the California strategy I see
@imoldmayo Жыл бұрын
1:38 I saw “New Mayo” and thought it was me, but, I guess not.
@smallcat848 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact if you build a normal city & slowly raise taxes over time you can get to some pretty high numbers
@anthonyemerson2965 Жыл бұрын
The high-tax, no-residents dirty industry city reminds me of Vernon, California, a city outside LA that has a population of 222 and is basically only oil refineries
@BadDrummerCarl Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how the Sims reflect reality on what happens if you put a very high tax on rich incomes.
@iceblaster1252 Жыл бұрын
Tfw even capitalism says the rich would rather evade taxes than pay into the society they benefit from
@housewilma4904 Жыл бұрын
@@iceblaster1252 and even capitalism also says if taxes are too high the lower and middle class people wontn pay them making them into criminals whos punishment drains yet more money.
@thezapper130 Жыл бұрын
There are real life nations with upper bracket rates double the max limit in sim city 4 with rich people living in them. 20% is actually insanely low compared to some of the real developed world.
@acevaver5425 Жыл бұрын
@@thezapper130 What most people don't realize is that 20 or 40% is just the minimum tax you pay. If you added up all the small tidbits like sales tax, property tax, etc., you'll be paying somewhere around the range of 60-90%.
@goopguy548 Жыл бұрын
@@housewilma4904no in capitalism they make the poor work in prisons to make it cash postivie. Prisons for profit. Good old modern day slavery 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@johnmoore1542 Жыл бұрын
"This just in, local frog recreates L.A."
@EmpressAndrina Жыл бұрын
Oh good, a new video. I’ll be able to fall asleep quickly tonight, the cadence of his voice is so soothing
@ghost_ship_supreme Жыл бұрын
It’s funny because 20% tax was considered ridiculously high back then. Now we’re paying 21% as the normal
@Cartridge512 Жыл бұрын
In this episode, AA accidentally re-creates San Francisco
@DeepTalksPodcast777 Жыл бұрын
Love your ambiguously phantasmal views on intercity commerce and taxation my brudduh. Thanks for leading the way on imminetizing the eschaton.
@misledpoet Жыл бұрын
AA unlocked the achievement: "Discovered capital flight"
@jerickstudios596 Жыл бұрын
I remember playing SimCity on my Nintendo DS as a kid many years ago. From what I remember, taxes were collected at the end of every year. So on the last day of every year right before everyone paid their taxes, I would maximize the tax. Then on the first day of the year after everyone paid maximum tax, I would decrease it again. There’s a chance I am remembering it wrong, but I know I did something like that, it’s just been so long since.
@technologic21 Жыл бұрын
I love your devotion to SimCity 4. It's a fantastic game for engineers, urban planning, economists.
@johng3029 Жыл бұрын
And deranged supervillans lol
@theor7843 Жыл бұрын
Damn AA put a epilepsy warning for that ufo scene or take it out. Caught me off guard and couldn't look away fast enough.. thanks for that
@ryan4912-m5v Жыл бұрын
"No taxation without representation" says a taxion "what do you want me to im a fucking turtle" says ambiguousamfebian
@uhpenyen4291 Жыл бұрын
What is funny is that you are describing exactly industrial revolution era during your game play.
@tisvana186 ай бұрын
I love how this went from Pasadena to Dubai to San Francisco to LA 50 years in the future
@arthurthemacarthur4334 Жыл бұрын
I did that once: you cant max taxes instantly, but every year you increase 0,1% in everything. But for that yes, a rich population is required.
@joesomebody3365 Жыл бұрын
Loved this game when I was in college, too bad Sim City 5 wasn't as good. Also, buildings like the stock exchange, expo center, Tv station, and other "gift" buildings you get at certain population/job thresholds will artificially raise demand. Try unlocking those first, then restarting the city with them. You won't be able to go all the way to 20% tax, but you can go a lot higher than 9% once they are in your city (and functioning).
@evilmiera Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the rich would rather leave their families, their history, their very childhoods, just to not have to pay their fair share. Sounds about right.
@grayearly3116 Жыл бұрын
It's strange how every video he does like this actually has a real life parallel lol.
@MrMarker8050 Жыл бұрын
11:29 "Moral of the story is that rich people don't pay taxes." TRUE lol
@Breadlvj Жыл бұрын
Never been this excited for tax season before.
@ruinedberserker7608 Жыл бұрын
I haven’t played or heard of just about every game you play on your channel. I absolutely love your content. Thanks man
@ishill85 Жыл бұрын
that bit where you made a utopia where no one worked using the proceeds from the factories was classic marxism, great stuff.
@ohshiditsgriff2793 Жыл бұрын
That was truly some from each according to his ability to each according to his need shit. Beautiful to see
@goopguy548 Жыл бұрын
Tbf that's the bright future for automation that's pretty communist. No-one works, but the government owns the businesses so can spend the profits on the people
@Jay_in_Japan Жыл бұрын
🎶 WE BUILT THIS CITY ON TAX & TOLLS 🎶
@ElTequilla6 ай бұрын
Oh boy oh boy, you made my day 😂
@Graknorke Жыл бұрын
"they'd rather live in a nuclear fallout zone or a DMZ if it meant they didn't have to pay taxes" I mean... the game is set in the USA. what did you expect.
@jacob4189 Жыл бұрын
There’s two things we love: keeping our money and giving the finger to the government
@Soapetr394 Жыл бұрын
He took “tax the rich” to another level 😭😭
@RandomInternetStranger9 ай бұрын
"Hey, I've been looking for a really good job lately but I don't have a College education. Where should I go?" "Just go to Max Tax City. I heard they don't even require you to be able to read in order to do their jobs. It's said that they even give you free hazmat suits, what with the acidic rain and the nonexistent ozone layer above it." "Nah, that's just a rumor. They don't even have breathable air for free, you think they'd give you a whole hazmat suit?"
@LukaTheGod Жыл бұрын
0:14 rip any epileptic person
@marcoaraiza9381 Жыл бұрын
"Sniff sniff. Do you smell that Maximillian? Someone just raised the taxes by .1%"
@th3fish Жыл бұрын
The entire town needs to be fire stations to please the fire advisor
@KiwiEmpire4640 Жыл бұрын
I'm disappointed that you did not name the city Maximus Taximus
@gamingmoth4542 Жыл бұрын
Feels like putting a frog into water and gradually increasing the temperature.
@Equinox601 Жыл бұрын
The fire guy was passively-aggressively dabbing at you again, but you didn't ref the old video. AA, I reckon you could have maxed out a bit harder on the Jokes in this episode. The ending was great though.
@ShamblerDK Жыл бұрын
Really nice to see you play the latest Sim City game.
@ashotbombila4675 Жыл бұрын
"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match." - Murray Rothbard
@Sir_Prize427 Жыл бұрын
I love how the 20% tax rate is considered absurd beyond all reason. I wish we could get it that low.
@Slug993 ай бұрын
The smallest city possible being a piece of unconnected road which is right on the border of another area, whose sole purpose is seemingly letting out of towners gamble, is beautiful.
@ArchDud3 Жыл бұрын
“I love tax.” -AA, 2023
@PoliciaCaro Жыл бұрын
dude became the 40k emperor and built the first hive city
@mr.cathacker Жыл бұрын
this video was released the second i pulled into a walmart parking lot and got ticketed for parking on striped paint.
@ohshiditsgriff2793 Жыл бұрын
ACAB 💕
@NicolianBehn5 ай бұрын
Someone already did this. It's called "any city in california"
@housewilma4904 Жыл бұрын
as someone said below its the CITY TAX which means all the national taxes go ONTOP of that so it would mean like half your paycheck is taxes before any expenses. effectivly no one wanted to live in the city because it would immiedatly make them into debt slv unable to leave. which is sadl true in alot of big cities with horrendus tax rates like new york chicago and san fran. it makes it impossible for lower classes to leave and incrediply painfull for middle class to leave.
@woozyneptune Жыл бұрын
The way you popped into the video at the start is absolutely glorious.
@pockypurse Жыл бұрын
Wow, you pretty much recreated San Francisco, minus the "everyone getting smarter and smarter" bit.
@Gell-lo Жыл бұрын
I'm really hopeful that there's a VOD longform version of this video, cause I bet it's a fun ride. I love your shortform humor, but the minute by minute is a real trip.
@os_temporale Жыл бұрын
The city began as the plot of land where hobos were playing cards That is literally New Albion
@DIA-gi9qh Жыл бұрын
This has to be the most realistic city he's ever made
@franktothemax Жыл бұрын
Simply the best storyteller and game player on YT. I could listen to AA talk about the philosophical woes of gaming forever too damn long.
@weareharbinger914 Жыл бұрын
The good old days where 20% taxes was considered way too much. Real life always makes tiny ai simulation people seem much smarter than we are.
@davidfl4 Жыл бұрын
“Rich people don’t pay taxes” man this game is so realistic 😂
@Summer512 Жыл бұрын
Galt's gulch with a big box over it propped up with a stick.
@weinsteintheironjew73128 ай бұрын
This is no Tax Haven, this is a tax prison
@drantil Жыл бұрын
you basically created a forge-world, and it works because workers phase in from other reallities or something? xD
@kirill9064 Жыл бұрын
Abominable Intelligence.
@qbertking1910 Жыл бұрын
AA thanks for helping me win that bet by saying “exquisite watermelon”
@dh.bryson1627 Жыл бұрын
Taxes + child support got me feeling like the government took notes from your videos
@RealTrey19 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting Connecticut simulator, thank you!
@theyedmeister6981 Жыл бұрын
A study was actually done asking people how much they'd be willing to give. They found that 17%, roughly, was the max that they could push, before folks started getting mad
@Koen1702 Жыл бұрын
Wait until you found out that taxes in the Netherlands are about 40%
@MetalHev Жыл бұрын
As a brazilian, I'm envious of your low taxes. And I wish I was joking.
@HansLemurson Жыл бұрын
Sim City was clearly designed by a bunch of Americans!
@hanzfranz7739 Жыл бұрын
@@HansLemurson I think you might be there on to something my friend
@faustinpippin9208 Жыл бұрын
only 40? in my country its over 50 of my salary gone from the start, then base tax over 24% for everything + all the hidden taxes, and fuel two times more expensive because of tax, and all other form of energy 3-5 times more expensive because of tax, all thanks to the gov monopoly, if i didnt pay any taxes i would have like 10 million euros in my bank, but instead i have 12....euro
@AugustusSinclairWhite Жыл бұрын
I think that's about where American taxes are at when you combine State and Federal. Makes sense that no one would want to live in a city that taxes them 20% on top of all that. /Edit: Nevermind, looks like the average actual tax rate is a touch under 30%, counting both federal and local taxes. My point still stands about folks not wanting half their wages to functionally go up in smoke, though, even if you assume some overlap between the actual tax rate and the 20% in Max Tax City.
@theanepic Жыл бұрын
I had flashbacks to cyberpunk edgerunners when I read the words "max tax"
@drantil Жыл бұрын
"people just... they hate taxes so much, they don't want public goods at all, and they probably prefer to live in a nuclear fallout zone" This right here is exactly the mentality of a lot of US citizens when confronted about their lack of public services compared to european countries xDD I've been personally attacked more than once in this topic, and it's just baffling, because they don't even consider that they end up paying the same or even more for their services than me for my public ones. I'd be on bankrupcy several times over after my both parents' cancer treatments and hospitalizations.
@phartferd5738 Жыл бұрын
Why pay taxes when you can become a drug lord?
@somehuman1901 Жыл бұрын
The truth has been spoken.
@BertoxolusThePuzzled Жыл бұрын
It's about having the choice, or at the very least the ILLUSION of a choice in the first place...
@sheepherder911 Жыл бұрын
My dude, America ia a multi-culti shithole with a pop. size of 360 million. It's not Belgium with like 17 people who are all cousins with one another. We don't view each other as neighbors or countrymen the same way a Brit or a Scot would. You got a lot of growing up to do if you haven't come to that conclusion while "being attacked multiple times" on this subject. Maybe you should consider others' logic as yours is flawed fundamentally when it comes to this topic.
@Mysticfateee Жыл бұрын
It's crazy how accurate SimCity 4 is with the taxing... Rich people won't pay tax. Big industrial areas will
@Supercohboy Жыл бұрын
I mean, if it weren't for the EPA I think something similar to the factory sweatshop city you succeeded with would exist, albeit to a less extreme extent since people can't just be bussed in by the cityload to work every week. We'd get Fordlandia probably.
@hi-i-am-atan Жыл бұрын
feels more likely our rail infrastructure would stop rotting, because why load people _and_ product into individual automobiles that have to share the same asphalt as outsiders not earning you money when you can just shove 'em all on the same train and be done with it?
@Yoshi278 Жыл бұрын
You forget that stuff like that has definitely happened in the past.
@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын
I mean little ones still exist in the west. Some company factory complexes are big enough and dodgy enough to be old fashioned company towns. And now private rehabs are getting in on it by converting their buildings into factory lines and luring in people sent to rehab by the law courts, so they arent allowed to leave the 'rehab'
@kalythai Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, every time I raise tax in any Sim City game by a *little* bit, the ingame advisors/news ticker says people disliked/hated/raged about it and my anxiety puts the taxes back to the minimum.
@robotswithryan8348 Жыл бұрын
There should be a killdozer event in this game.
@dannypipewrench533 Жыл бұрын
2:58 This end screen must be one of the greatest political commentaries of all time.
@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten Жыл бұрын
Watching this while living in Germany with an average income tax from 19%. This is fine.
@skoovee Жыл бұрын
im curious, do you think germany is a good place to live, i want to move there one day
@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten Жыл бұрын
@@skoovee I think it's pretty decent place, we have high taxes but a lot of Social care, free healthcare and an ok public transportation. The crime rate is pretty low. The only thing that sucks is the bureaucracy. But I'm also curious, how is it in Australia? I've heard a lot of crazy stuff lately.
@skoovee Жыл бұрын
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten its ok, gets hot the crime rate is ok but a lot of the attitudes towards LGBT people are getting worse and there are not all that many career opportunity's for what i want to go into. how did you know i am in australia?
@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten Жыл бұрын
@@skoovee You can see the country under the "channel info" tab. The attitude toward LGBT people here is getting worse too (especially trans people) but it's still way better than in countries like the USA. Which is more troubling at the moment are the estimated survey values of the AFD (A fascist party) 18%
@user-hm1zb8js5i Жыл бұрын
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten The AfD is not a fascist party. They are the only party that truly cares about Germany and wants to save it from the stealing and corrupt immigrants who are bringing in crime and poverty. The German healthcare system is also complete shit because it is free.
@bunbunnybunbunbunnybae95878 ай бұрын
Play simcity4 again! But this time, I want to see a well balanced and artistically integral city, starting with a half circle of road and half circle of street in a 2x2 square. Your perfectly balanced city will branch out around there. I'll make one too since i'm playing this a lot right now!
@lmf2024-k7p Жыл бұрын
Great video AA! Always love the Sims & SimCity videos, Also, how do you run SimCity 4? Do you have it on Windows 10/11, or an XP/vista machine?