I suspect a temporary tax with set deadline for re-evaluation would be a good way to go. I think a tax would be needed in the short term transition period but

I suspect a temporary tax with set deadline for re-evaluation would be a good way to go. I think a tax would be needed in the short term transition period but after we get ubi or similar sorted it should probably go away. The situation really just boils down to: we have better tools coming, only this time the labour displacement is going to be unheard of in magnitude. We need some way of limiting the fall out. While taxing robots is a silly idea, it might just be the only thing that is a feasible solution. People tend to forget that real people lose their livelihoods when technology happens. This isn't nice, but we tend to shrug it off because we have social nets in place. If we don't have the money to pay for those social nets we're fucked.