I went through the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence one by one, and, all this seems very very much like what this country was founded to stop. https://bsky.app/profile/jauntywk.bsky.social/post/3lmfft33o...
Citizenship in certain forms today in many cases is just like slavery.
You are taxed on anything you make and do regardless of where you go. Giving up your citizenship too costs something like $10,000 now, where they may just take the money and not complete the process.
If you don't report earnings to Fincen they'll go after you as they did with that one person, who was technically a US citizen but had no living memory of the US and was only born there, but was raised in France. He found out when he turned 15 or 18 or some such.
Its quite the racket.
Update: its actually $2350 which is non-refundable, and if you have assets above a certain amount there are additional compliance taxes, and if they can demonstrate non-compliance in some detail you have to start over.
If you don't eat you die. So what you really say when you say that is... just die. Pay the tax, or die.
That is actual slavery when those taxes prevent or limit bare necessities like eating, or having sufficient money to support the raising of children.
Most of the benefits the old received when they were young were systemically taken away or withheld to enrich the old.
Debts were piled onto the young without appropriate representation (i.e. social security, and many other taxes).
In many respects the older generation as a whole chose to willingly make their children sacrifices to the spendthrift debts of their generation; which is what happens when your leaders have no real funding plan and the population doesn't hold their leaders to account.
The old through aggregate choice (inaction is a choice) of their cohort made the world they intended for their children. All the leaders needed was your willing complicit consent to do nothing.
As a result, many of those children aren't having children themselves because there is no future, no economic means to support children, or even meet someone.
Just like the native peoples who became slaves following the Spanish Conquistadors, where they would kill themselves, not have children, and even kill their children. These things about slavery repeat when people blind themselves.
The systems which were handed off to the last generation are former shadows of what they once were. The protections have been removed to favor one party at the expense of many.
One bad generation is all it takes, and from there you have a generation of suffering and violence when that suffering becomes untenable by the majority. A hellscape, and that is the legacy of the boomer generation.
To make matters worse, the weapons the older generation developed to maintain control may even allow government to retain a system of enslavement thereafter, where everything collapses (i.e. Malthus/Catton).