• devzero@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Should we tax bulldozers because they take away jobs from people using shovels? What about farm equipment, since they take away jobs from people picking fruit by hand? What about mining equipment, because they take away jobs from people using pickaxes?

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      1 year ago

      If the machine replaced the human, yes. That’s the argument being made currently.

      Imagine if we simply taxed machine profits after 40 hours of work. You not only can give kickbacks to large companies, but you could also rewire profits to UBI