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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by SixSigma on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:08PM (#11772280)
And the profit went to the shareholders - pensioners and 401k holders.
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by dzhiurgis on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:51PM (#11774659)
While most of the tax goes into bureaucracy.

The idea of taxing automation sounds like discouragement of increasing the efficiency. If anything we should subsidise it!

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