The phrase 'Nothing's certain but death and taxes' needs an addendum—because the inevitability of Palworld having Pokémon modded into it is, statistically, more likely than both of those things.
Medical science could outpace death given a couple hundred years. A post-scarcity society could move beyond the need for taxation—but the moment someone could send Pikachu to the mines, they were going to do it. Thus it was written, and thus it shall be.
