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Exactly. This is such a silly argument. The article takes the argument "if a lot of jobs disappeared since they are now done effectively for free, what about ta
by bko 10mo ago
Exactly. This is such a silly argument. The article takes the argument "if a lot of jobs disappeared since they are now done effectively for free, what about tax revenue??"
It really misses the forrest from the trees. You're transported into a world in which efficiencies mean that much fewer people need to work, but somehow government services and entitlements are unchanged and we need to hit roughly the same percent federal tax receipts or ... what exactly?
- appreciatorBus 10mo agoAlso, if magical robot AI makes private operations more efficient, requiring less cost for the same or more amount, then it can do the same thing for government operations.
- usrusr 10mo agoSo, even more people out on the streets desperately trying to get their slice of survival by being sexually available to the equity lords? Because what else will there be?
- jayd16 10mo agoOr people starve? But ok look at it this way... What is silly about taxing a sector that is undertaxed because the current system assumed income taxes?
- Teever 10mo ago> You're transported into a world in which efficiencies mean that much fewer people need to work, It's a matter of perspective. I'm pretty sure that from their perspective those people very much need to work because they need to pay taxes, rent, insurance, food etc... What mechanism is going to ensure that the increased productivity is going to result in lower cost of living for these people such that they no longer require to spend so much of their life working to survive?
- carlosjobim 10mo ago> I'm pretty sure that from their perspective those people very much need to work because they need to pay taxes, rent, insurance, food etc... That's a pretty Matrix "human-battery" level attitude to your fellow brothers and sisters. "They need to work to pay taxes, rent, and insurance". Ie, they only exist and are allowed to live to be serfs - or cattle really.
- monegator 10mo ago- social security - healthcare - armed forces - road/utility maintenance bacially everything funded by taxes
- hansmayer 10mo agoOr...infrastructure, public services and schools go unmaintained? How about the magic technology supposedly allowing for all of this efficency, all the while it imagines a human has six fingers, who will maintain that?
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