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One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or wh

by yaacov 10y ago

One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.

colechristensen 10y ago
And how do you isolate a robot "individual"?
- Vexs 10y ago
  I suppose you could do it by appendage, but then a humanoid robot would be 4 persons.
  - jacquesm 10y ago
    I count 20 of them.
    - cmdrfred 10y ago
      21 here.
      - ars 10y ago
        You only have one ear?
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fiatmoney 10y ago
"one human is a pretty constant unit of work" Trivially false; human productivity routinely differs by a factor of thousands to millions.