> Engineers are clever. Sure that might be true, but now that cleverness is going to be wasted building tax compliance solutions which aren’t even close to being “not much of a burden.
Orrrrr a couple of companies will step into this problem space, solve it, and everyone will offload their tax compliance to those companies, in exactly the same way that we don't all waste 1,000,000 engineering hours on the arcana of banking and credit card networks and just offload that concern to payment gateways with nice APIs.
This is already the way it works in most of the world. HN is showing its provincialism by convincing themselves this is some kind of impossible-to-solve problem.
Orrrrr a couple of companies will step into this problem space, solve it, and everyone will offload their tax compliance to those companies, in exactly the same way that we don't all waste 1,000,000 engineering hours on the arcana of banking and credit card networks and just offload that concern to payment gateways with nice APIs.
This is already the way it works in most of the world. HN is showing its provincialism by convincing themselves this is some kind of impossible-to-solve problem.