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I want to be open-minded about AI, but I’ll be damned if my tax dollars are going to a self-driving car’s unemployment cheque!
by cush 3y ago
I want to be open-minded about AI, but I’ll be damned if my tax dollars are going to a self-driving car’s unemployment cheque!
- orwin 3y agoHow does it work in the US? Here it's a mandatory insurance you pay on your salary, but then if you're laid off without cause, you get 80% of your salary for X amount of time (sometime the company give the missing 20% for like 2 months, but i'm not sure if it's standard).
- khuey 3y agoCompanies pay an unemployment insurance payroll tax that goes into a big fund managed by the state and benefits are paid out of that fund. The exact amounts and timing vary a lot from state to state. These state funds are backstopped by the federal government who will lend the states money against future unemployment insurance tax revenue.
- cush 3y agoNo idea. I was making a joke about the headline which reads to me like the cars were laid off