Right now I am keeping my 3D hobby as cheap as I can. Around the time the global pandemic started I got certified as an assistive technology specialist. Hopefully in a few months when everything is reopened I can find work in that field. I'll be earning some money to buy better equipment and use my newly developed 3D printing skills to research and develop some assistive technology ideas I have.
The fact that my country's tax laws have certain benefits for inventors and I can probably claim my next 3D printer purchase as a tax deduction is just a happy coincidence.😎
I wish you the best with this endeavor and believe there is certainly a market for assistive tech in the future. It makes sense that it would be a growing industry.
I bought my 3D printer with crypto, as well as every part and accessory needed, and then got wrecked and lets just say the market has not been kind to me.
I was fortunate to get everything I needed for the printer before getting wrecked, but now I'm pretty much in the same boat and buying even rolls of filament is not going to be easy for me.
I didn't report my crypto pennies and don't care to. The little bit I turned into cash didn't even add up to tax brackets, and the whole institutional forceful demand for us to report is pretty vile and disgusting to me as a crypto enthusiast who believes it should have helped us detach from the broken monetary system we are enslaved under, but that's another topic entirely.
I would like a flat tax. There's a fan theory I like that states The Joker would rather go against Batman than the IRS because he only commits crimes in which he knows he can claim insanity as an affirmative defense.