In-reply-to » 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

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

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