What really makes this metaphor is the fact that the most economically parasitic suburbs are literally called "bedroom communities" https://twitter.com/_wayneburkett/status/1278534111754424320?s=20 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think I sorta vaguely get what it's pointing at but I feel like I'm missing a key part of the analogy, or the context, or something. Is it a specifically U.S. city thing?
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Replying to @Hi_Mike_Gorrie
The city is the kitchen, the rest of the apartment is the suburbs, the point of the metaphor is suburban people literally consume every single thing a city makes but don't pay any taxes to support it because of the fact that they don't sleep there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hi_Mike_Gorrie
The fact that the place you sleep at night is where you have "residency" for tax purposes is the basis of our whole system but it doesn't actually make sense and has been deliberately gamed like hell
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Wait, the U.S. tax system is based on postcode?? Jesus Like, we have local councils here in Aus but I'm pretty sure the taxation system here only cares what state we live in
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Yes, it varies from place to place but most major cities have local taxes you pay on top of your state taxes, and people's resistance to this is what created the legal definition of suburbs OP was talking about (drawing an arbitrary line past which you don't pay those taxes)
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