A worker who pays a high percentage of his/her salary to the government. A tax slave isn't a slave, per se, just someone who perceives that they pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits. That said, people who perceive themselves as tax slave don't always take into account public benefits like roads, water, electricity and other infrastructures supported by their payments to a governing body.
After it was found out she ran a marathon, it made the tax slaves feel better when the woman was made to pay back disability benefits.
Person who is willing to give their wages away so another individual can virtue signal their “superior” need to “help” people when that money is more likely to be embezzled via fraud.
California has a large Tax Slave populace so the Feds can divvy out the money for votes.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”