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**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 Why don't we just make food, water and shelter free? 🤔
@slashdot Why don't we just make food, water and shelter free? 🤔
@slashdot Why don't we just make food, water and shelter free? 🤔
@slashdot Why don't we just make food, water and shelter free? 🤔
@prologic 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 I dunno. How does this "supposedly" work in Sci-Fi films where this sort of thing is "solved"? 🤔
@mckinley I dunno. How does this "supposedly" work in Sci-Fi films where this sort of thing is "solved"? 🤔
@mckinley I dunno. How does this "supposedly" work in Sci-Fi films where this sort of thing is "solved"? 🤔
@mckinley I dunno. How does this "supposedly" work in Sci-Fi films where this sort of thing is "solved"? 🤔
@prologic billionaires don't exist. That many resources tied up by single individuals muck up the whole system.
@prologic billionaires don't exist. That many resources tied up by single individuals muck up the whole system.
@prologic they are sci-fi movies, not real life. 😂
@bender One can only hope (dream) 🤣
@bender One can only hope (dream) 🤣
@bender One can only hope (dream) 🤣
@bender One can only hope (dream) 🤣
@prologic they ditch capitalism, which creates all these "problems" and then sells you the "solutions", investments in the solutions, labor to create the solutions, blah blah blah
@abucci capitalism sucks 🤣 all solutions suck 😅
@abucci capitalism sucks 🤣 all solutions suck 😅
@abucci capitalism sucks 🤣 all solutions suck 😅
@abucci capitalism sucks 🤣 all solutions suck 😅