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Re:American Equity by JoachimSchipper on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:13PM (#15789572)
Currently, most [EDIT: many] people's share of the GDP is (mostly) their income from labor. Y Combinator / Sam Altman worries that increasing automation will make many people's job obsolete; merely lowering taxes on the salary of a McDonald's worker won't help if said worker will soon be unemployable.

(Whether this will actually happen is a separate topic; but there's a reason why Sam Altman doesn't just propose your tax-the-rich scheme.)

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Re:American Equity by badestrand on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:38PM (#15790456)
> Currently, most people's share of the GDP is (mostly) their income from labor

"Most"? According to [1] only around 50% of the US citizens do get a paycheck (155 of 322 mio). The others probably mostly are kids, senior people and housewives, but they make up a significant portion.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000

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