• slipperydippery@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What would you tax exactly? Robots don’t earn an income and don’t inherently make a profit. You could tax a company or owner who profits off of robots and/or sells their labor.

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      1 year ago

      It would have to be some sort of moderated labor cost saving tax kind of thing enforced by the government

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        1 year ago

        If we think of production as costing land, labour and capital, then more efficient methods of production would likely swap labour for capital. In that case then we just tax capital growth like we’re doing now (Only properly, like without the loopholes). No need to complicate it past that

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure how feasible it is but I’ve seen a sort of “minimum wage” for robots suggested which is paid to the government as tax.