A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them … ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Why don’t we just make food, water and shelter free? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Because all of those things require resources which can’t just be created out of thin air. Human effort must be expended, risk must be taken, materials must be procured, and everyone involved needs to be compensated in some way for that.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I dunno. How does this “supposedly” work in Sci-Fi films where this sort of thing is “solved”? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net billionaires don’t exist. That many resources tied up by single individuals muck up the whole system.

@xuu Oh I see 🤯

@bender@twtxt.net One can only hope (dream) 🤣

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci capitalism sucks 🤣 all solutions suck 😅