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shagie on April 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I wish GPT4 had never happened

> But that would require that we start taxing companies far more

Instead of thinking of things like "payroll tax" and such being a tax on humans - change it to a tax on (for lack of a better word) productivity.

Tax the robots.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/robot-tax-income-inequality-1221

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax

https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/bernie-sanders-bill-gates-rob... ( https://archive.is/Y90NU )

sveme on April 8, 2023 [–]

Wouldn‘t this be a tax on capital, in the end? In the end, we might reach the marxist stage of history - we should all own the robots that produce our stuff.

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