alt Hacker News> Have a kid? Buy a house? Go to college? Make $60k selling illicit drugs on the black market? Get a $200 bank signup bonus?
Lmao in Australia, other then the drugs, yes the government knows because everything is reported to them.
America is just behind.
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astrange • 12/08/2025
If you're a business owner then they're not going to just know because it's up to you in several different ways how to report things.
If you're a child then they're not going to just know who you're a dependent of.
America has famously bad government everything. Everything they touch becomes a jobs program for the least qualified. Every comedian jokes about the DMV and TSA because they're the ones most people deal with regularly, but it's depressing to realize every government run institution is just as if not more bizarre. My interactions with USCIS and DHS, who I thought would be more professional, made me question if I was on a hidden comedy show...
My favorite interaction to tell however belongs to the TSA. I went through the scanner and it flagged the back of my head. The TSA agent said he needed to verify, so put on gloves and patted the back of my head before letting me go. I wear a military cut, the back of my head is done with a #1/2 guard. For those not in the US, that's a buzz cut of length 1.5mm.