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Knew I forgot something! Although I should at least point out that while true now, there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from this. Tax policy
by SllX 5y ago
Knew I forgot something!
Although I should at least point out that while true now, there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from this. Tax policy is a human choice, so while not paying payroll taxes is an advantage for hiring a robot over a person today, that doesn’t stop human governments from enacting robot taxes.
- sgeisler 5y ago> there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from [taxation] If automation really takes off and entire factories can be run by a handful of people it might make sense to move them to whatever low-tax country with a port. Pay the 5 employees running it extra to fly in there for a few months a year each (like oil workers) and if it's in a lawless region add some automatic turrets that shoot at anything unauthorized entering the perimeter. Makes sense as long as extra pay+extra shipping+ammo costs is less than the hypothetical robot taxes.