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I don't know you implement a basic income scheme on a nation-state by nation-state basis. If one nation taxes the robot overlords and gives the money to unskil

I don't know you implement a basic income scheme on a nation-state by nation-state basis. If one nation taxes the robot overlords and gives the money to unskilled humans... then the robot overlords will move to a friendlier nation, while also seeing inflows of unskilled humans immigrating. The immigration issue is a difficult one, because the nations most likely to embrace basic income are also the least likely to embrace draconian immigration controls. The movement of capital issue is more difficult still, and perhaps outright impossible. How do you break the race-to-the-bottom cycle if some nations opt-out of the new order? Basic income is an interesting idea, but I haven't heard any plausible proposals for it that wouldn't depend upon nations giving up sovereignty and moving closer to global governance. Back here in reality, Europe is struggling to keep a single continent loosely tied together.

gnaritas 10y ago
> then the robot overlords will move to a friendlier nation, while also seeing inflows of unskilled humans immigrating. This is a bad assumption, the robot overlords can't just move to another nation, markets don't work that way; they're here because they're selling in this market, you don't just say oh well I'll stop selling stuff in the US and only sell stuff in Germany because they're going to tax me less as it's a much smaller market and a culturally different one as well. What sells in the U.S. won't be what sells in another country, and other markets are much smaller and/or would require complete culturally relevant re-branding to a large degree that might not be possible. The U.S. is a huge basically mono culture market, the E.U. is not, you can't just move shop, you have to change the entire way you do business. tldr; markets are sticky, the rich people don't/won't/can't just leave when tax policy doesn't swing their way because their money machines are tied to those markets.

gnaritas 10y ago

> then the robot overlords will move to a friendlier nation, while also seeing inflows of unskilled humans immigrating. This is a bad assumption, the robot overlords can't just move to another nation, markets don't work that way; they're here because they're selling in this market, you don't just say oh well I'll stop selling stuff in the US and only sell stuff in Germany because they're going to tax me less as it's a much smaller market and a culturally different one as well. What sells in the U.S. won't be what sells in another country, and other markets are much smaller and/or would require complete culturally relevant re-branding to a large degree that might not be possible. The U.S. is a huge basically mono culture market, the E.U. is not, you can't just move shop, you have to change the entire way you do business. tldr; markets are sticky, the rich people don't/won't/can't just leave when tax policy doesn't swing their way because their money machines are tied to those markets.