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Well, a traditional gold mining operation has to pay taxes on the literal gold they take out of the ground and sell on the open market.

They also had to pay taxes on the equipment that they used to mine the gold, and probably taxes on the people they had to pay to manage the operation.

So it could be seen as 'unfair' for someone who mines information to get a pass and only have to pay some of the taxes that a precious metal mining operation pays.



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