A closer look
Internal Revenue Service tax code is currently over nine million words long, which makes it about eight times longer than the entire Harry Potter series combined. This bureaucratic masterpiece of absolute torture ensures that an entire industry of accountants remains highly compensated to decode a system intentionally designed to confuse you. If you ever feel bad about not understanding your tax forms, remember that the government essentially wrote a sprawling high-fantasy epic where the magic system is just taking your money and the dark lord is a random audit. To read the whole thing at a normal pace would take you about a month of non-stop, twenty-four-hours-a-day reading, which is honestly the most depressing speedrun challenge ever conceived by mankind
