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>Or is the goal to inhibit change, so that people don't have to apply their minds to figure out how and where they fit into a rapidly changing (improving?) worl
by vsareto 7y ago
>Or is the goal to inhibit change, so that people don't have to apply their minds to figure out how and where they fit into a rapidly changing (improving?) world?
Adaptability is dependent on education and wealth and opportunity, so ideally this tax goes towards helping people who are least able to adapt to sudden automation and loss of income by giving them education and income. We should control change that has a high human livelihood cost so that we do not leave anyone under-served. There should be insurance against economic upheavals.
- nordsieck 7y ago> ideally this tax goes towards helping people who are least able to adapt to sudden automation and loss of income by giving them education and income. What is your estimate of the probability that that will happen contingent on a tax being enacted.
- vsareto 7y agoVery low in America. We already don't pay teachers enough. Even if a large company with deep pockets (e.g. Google) were to write a check to a state's education budget (so no other government department took a slice of the tax), the increases would more than likely be caught by inflating administrative costs first for no real increases in teaching others.