What compels someone to be a tax collector?

[Breadbassket]

Asking for a friend.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

You can pocket some of your collected taxes to profit.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Presumably, the same thing that drives people to be bailiffs or cops.

 

[GenericEdgelordSupreme]

A big nose, short stature, athletic ineptitude, tiny round hats... and a natural love of money, of course.

 

[hl2_linux]

Judaism.

 

[GenericEdgelordSupreme]

Judaism.

I was trying to be subtle about it.

 

[hl2_linux]

I was trying to be subtle about it.

There's no point in obscuring the facts.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

There's no point in obscuring the facts.

The Talmud begs to differ, the goyim mustn't know.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

A lack of a backbone.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

being a bugman

 

[Moths]

What makes a man turn jewish? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of jewality?

Its the jewality of man

 

[The Connected Nose]

<'Hava Nagila' intensifies>

 

[Gargamel]

I'm Jewish and tax collecting sounds boring as fuck.

 

[Tiny Chinaman]

To impress all of your rabbi friends

 

[waffle]

Some people are just born fucked up, man.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Judaism.

Really, just end the thread here.

 

[ffo kcuF]

It's honest work for fair pay.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

In a functional, high-trust society: You collect the money that goes to services that benefit the common good including the people you are collecting from and are convinced your job is something noble.
The society we actually live in: You get a job where the regime in power will hopefully gulag you last and you can abuse people you don't like while acting righteous.