“The two most difficult things humans do is being born and dying” is one of my favorite statements from Norman Fischer, a poet, author, and Zen Buddhist teacher and priest, (I had the privilege to listen to him and meditate with his group) “and everybody accomplishes them. So most other tasks should be easy.” They’re not. Either it’s the choice that makes it difficult: “green or blue plastic spoons?”, “Vanilla or chocolate?”, “stay or leave?” or it’s the missing choice: “will they let me buy them a drink? (maybe smiling helps)”, “being born or rather not”, “death or eternal life”(smiling does not help). In these excurses, the IRS (US tax authority) is often mentioned in combination with death, but there is a way to avoid paying taxes: just get very rich or create a hypercomplex net of off-shore companies or both.