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Lemmy has definitely “scratched” 100k https://the-federation.info/platform/73

100% agreed, the complications are part of the equation but shouldn’t stop us from making a basic system that works for most people. As long as there’s a way to manually enter and categorize exceptions in the form of assets, extra income, investments, etc it would work for almost everyone.

According to bls.gov

15 million people were self-employed in 2015, or 10.1 percent of all U.S. workers

For w2 employees that makes a whole lot of sense, for the self employed it doesn’t really seem possible for the govt to calculate