A Dragon's Hoard by OffKeyComics 

99% of the wealth is owned by the 1%, the dragons.

Bro made the IRS pay him taxes, Smaug himself has got nothing in this guy

Dragons outsmarting IRS. I accept this lore.

This is why there are no more dragons. The IRS slaughtered them since they couldn't get anything outta em for they were too financially intelligent

In my world build, dragons are who you pay your taxes to. Well actually you pay your taxes your king and he pays taxes to the dragon(s) whoms land his kingdom is on.

This is why I don't mind dragons being corporate CEOs in Shadowrun. All that timeless wisdom would deffo let them chicken dinner themselves into a CEO position and keep every single bit of net value they can.

dragon attacks with unrealized gains its super effective.

IRS Wizard: I cast liquidation

Billionaires are chromatic. Nonprofits are metalic.

This ironically is what dragons do in Shadowrun

Say what you will, the knight is an honest man, he handed over the due credit the moment he was made aware

Have done this as a DM. For a campaign you should have seen their faces meeting a lawful good elder Red dragon that was missing his left front claw in dragon form hand in human form. Long story short dragon got tired of being constantly robbed and started enjoying killing opponents in the stock trade of good across every major city. And they ended up having to apologize for B&E. Ended up becoming friends with him. 😂

Avg IRS tax lawyer vs. Avg mega corporation CEO

At least it wasn't a hoard of en eff tees. :3

Also, In one game I had a blue dragon that turned their horde into a bank. They also paid all their taxes on time. The taxes were nothing compared to the protection of being a lawful (evil) job creating entrepreneur. The group of almost all chaotic characters decided to stage a bank robbery... only to discover a mere 2,000 gold in the vault. The dragon then asked if they knew of an even greater evil: fractional reserve banking!

I wasn’t paying attention the first time, so the pile of gold looked like a masive raw chicken. Can’t unsee it now.

A dragon that knows tax code That's the most attractive dragon there is

And then the Market crashed and the dragon realized why you don't placr all your wealth on a piece of paper.

lol dragon in real estate during 2008 housing crash

This is underrated Very underrated.

When you don't pay your taxes, the IRS comes to get the money but they have no choice but to forget about it because you have nothing to pay them-you spent the money on something else.

A medieval knight would never fall for that. They knew very well that capital is the truest form of wealth

Whats funny is that this ties back to what the origin of European dragons, being the nobles and monarchy, aka the rich

"The only money I have I pay to my accountant"

This is literaly dragons in shadowrun. Instead of gold they hord the stock market and company shares.

The Wyvern of Wall Street 😭🙏

Smaug would be proud.

Don't blame the dragon. The system was made for them to be able to do that.

The cojones on that soldier to try to come collect from a dragon...

You know what dragon? You make a valid point. Help me fix the IRS, and I will spare you.

We need dragon financial class

I wonder just how many "Dragon Slayer" tales are just the sequels to the times the tax collector didn't come back?

Oh no My worst fear TAXES

The only thing the irs fears... A smart dragon

Pov: you see the irs trying to tax the money that the billioners that they say doesnt exist Edit: tf is happening in the comments

Did dragon take investment dragon stock market?🤣🤣🤣

You could still kill it for it's scales and bones, that's good crafting material.

Dragons with INT high enough to outsmart the government, it would make sense

"well played dragon, well played..."

A Win for my Dragons out there.

Foolish dragon, I was not here for the gold but for you!

Dragon scales are definitely worth a good amount of gold.

I accept this lore as fact.

Better be glad it wasn't a bard

Ah yes, dragon with loopholes

Shadowrun dragons be like

Considering their greed and intellect, it does make sense

I’m saving this this was hilarious

Dragons are basically ancient and hyper intelligent in many settings... Having an intimate understanding of taxcode isn't really a stretch

As if the IRS will ever go after a dragon, nah they'd fleece the peasants, much easier, and safer and better yet, they can't fight back! :D

The irs is just the tentacle of an octopus bigger than any dragon.

This needs to be a series

The IRS is in fact the biggest dragon of them all

When you live for millions of years, your worst enemy is inflation. Imagine sitting on a hoard only to discover it lost 95% of its value.

People out here saying the dragon outsmarted the IRS, as if the dragon did not have a hand in shaping the IRS by lobbying for what it could, and couldn’t do to them.

This is why the IRS is always the true BBEG.

Tax evasion dragon

I'm always amused by the hsitory of Shadowrun, where dragons, after waking up after five thousand years, took one look at our financial systems and were became the wealthiest individuals on the plant within a decade. They took one look at Capitalism and muttered "look at what it takes to mimic a fraction of our greed."

Thats why I sometimes call the rich 1 percent Dragons.

The most succinct explanation of how we just let the vampire class get away with not paying taxes.

this is how rich people hoard their wealth and avoid tax.

Knight Of the IRS: Mr. Dragon, it appears your Liver can cover the debt you owe. Dragon: ehh what!?! *The forces of IRS Decent into the caverns.* IRS Legion: We shall collect payments in kind.

therapist: “economically correct dragon isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.” economically correct dragon:

The dragon bought stock in a merchant's guild. The economic activity from increased trade generated lots of tax revenue, equaling more than what the dragon might have paid. The king would have plenty of money to spend fighting foreign wars and to fund gender studies abroad.

For a sec, I thought Hopper grew up.

Lawful Evil behavior

This is what happens in real life, it's also what happens in Shadowrun. In both cases it's just CEOs with assets conveniently tied up elsewhere. The CEOs also happen to be dragons in shadowrun

Just 0realized those were "dragon stocks" XD the layers in this video are great

The dragon has beaten the IRS… it’s too powerful.

I would swear fealty to this dragon, he laughs in the face of the IRS

Interested storytelling video and art

Just a quick explanation on why things like stocks aren't taxable. It's because the value is not set. You theoretically pay taxes on them after you sell or otherwise collect the value, but at no time while they are fluctuating in value, however there are ways of getting around this, but that is *why* the law functions the way it is. Instead of stocks let's instead go with physical property, since this is much closer on how the law treats it. You buy a painting at ten dollars from a street painter. He becomes famous and his paintings are in high demand now, and your painting is worth ten million dollars, and you will own nothing to the IRS because of it. You don't pay taxes on it because it appreciated in value. You pay taxes when you sell it, converting it into liquid funds.

I was hoping he was gonna smash its eye out with the coin bag.

If this was lore accurate the Dragons WOULD BE the IRS

“GREEDY BEEST!” 😂😂😂

You owe the bank 50,000 USD, the bank controls you. You owe the bank 500,000,000, you control the bank.

I go get my stuff, come back and start living with the dragon.

So the billionaires are really dragons wearing human suits....which means the lizard people consiperqcy is REAL!!! 😂😂😂

You know eventually those stocks will plummet and the dragon will have eventually fail at an actual hoard

"Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; they guard their plunder as long as they live (which is practically forever, unless they are killed), and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the current market value; and they can’t make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour." -J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Hobbit_

He beat the system

Ah yes, a dragon you kill for justice, for once

This is a whole masterclass in finance waiting to happen 😅 Diversify Your Hoardfolio

From now on in my DnD campaign, every time a dragon is slayed and their hoard is plundered, inflation skyrockets because dragons hoard most of the world's wealth

The dragons are the IRS! That explains the taxes. 😂😂😂

Good for the dragon.

Soul eater has made me fear the word “fool”

this is why i say we live in an age of dragons

But he's going to be paying way more in taxes after on those capital gains. And not to mention the taxes he paid when he first got the money to invest.

Best analogy ever 😂

theres red, blue, to brass to bronze dragons, even silver to gold- any fool with a coinpurse knows the *Hypothetical Dragon* will surely end up being the worst to run across for the longevity of any beings lifetime *at least death has no debts*

This is Shadowrun lore. Dragons in the future just own corporations and commit tax fraud.

The true lizard conspiracy here

Capital gains from stock are still taxable. It's write-offs of bogus company debt where the real treasure lies.

This but in real life, rather than sighing, revolt against the capital keeping you chained down

Lofwyr in Shadowrun be like.

2019 amazon paid $0 in taxes and got a $129 million dollar tax rebate. Tax Cut and Jobs Act, thanks... That was also the first time I owed taxes...and no one in the US could call me rich.

Bro censoring the cuss wors with a RU-vid icon is clever

This is exactly why we need regular realization of stock assets to be enforced.

Half expected all the papers to be IOUs, honestly.