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Interesting article but he wants to tax the “profit of compute, network, etc…” but how you can legally define the profits generate from network data or computin
by giuliomagnifico 4y ago
Interesting article but he wants to tax the “profit of compute, network, etc…” but how you can legally define the profits generate from network data or computing power?
You can already tax the power consumption, or the company profits, but I see hard to find what he describes in the article. And also lots of super computer are made by states/research centers/universities and companies already pay to use the computing capability.
- rnk 4y agoThe real thing they're trying to tax is some part of the massive impact that AI and other automation will have on the economy and lives of people who will lose jobs. It's just going to be harder and harder to have a decent lifestyle in the US if you aren't fortunate to have great education in a important area that isn't automated. If I had a factory that used to employ a thousand people to make widgets and it gets automated and now makes the same with only 50 people, probably the cost of production is lower, but 950 people lost their jobs. In my West Coast city we already have tons of people that can't find a job (some lost through automation?) where they can afford an apartment and so they live in their cars and later they live on the street. This is going to happen to increasing parts of the population in the US.