There could easily be a tax for eliminating someone's position entirely. i.e. Incentivize having way more people than needed to watch the machine do its thing.

There could easily be a tax for eliminating someone's position entirely. i.e. Incentivize having way more people than needed to watch the machine do its thing. Ok radical idea - I'm starting to think of these ever larger/automated companies as having "won" the capitalism game or discovered a fundamental solution to some problem. But the economy doesn't have a great endgame scenario for such entities. One option might be regulating them as public utilities instead of corporate entities. i.e. The point of making a huge corporation changes from eternally extracting rent to becoming so ubiquitous that society adopts it as a fundamental exercise like Fire Departments or roadways.