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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by brandall10 on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:02AM (#46275384)
Curious, what is your solution to this situation? Imagine all labor has been automated - virtually all facets of life have been commoditized, how does the average person survive in such a society?
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by galaxyLogic on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:55AM (#46276997)
I would go further and ask how does a person who is unable to work survive in our current society? Should we let them die of hunger? Send them to Equador? Of course not, only nazis would propose such a solution.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by bombcar on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:23AM (#46275646)
Isn't this the premise of some sci-fi books and such?

(We in some way, in the developed world, are already mostly here in that the lifestyle of even a well-off person of a thousand years ago is almost entirely supported by machines and such; less than 10% of labor is in farming. What did we do? Created more work (and some would say much busy-work).)

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