If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by llsf on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:36PM (#46307572)

> But if we fully automate how to make and sell and deliver TVs and blenders and now I can get a 200" TV for $2 and a blender for $0.05 but now I don't have a job so I can't afford even a basic apartment what do we do with our society?

Delivery should be automated.

Rent would obviously crater as building housing craters too (robots making it, materials being extracted and manufactured by robots too). But again, it would still cost something (energy at very least and assuming energy is not free).

So I suspect that even if 100% is automated, we would still need little money to pay for the basics (food, shelter).

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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by vel0city on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:50AM (#46313284)

There is only so much land where people actually want to live. Governments put restrictions on what can be built. It might end up costing $20 to build a 100-story apartment complex, but if the government says buildings can only be five stories high or you have to only build single family homes it doesn't matter.

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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by AnthonyMouse on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:05PM (#46318716)

> It might end up costing $20 to build a 100-story apartment complex, but if the government says buildings can only be five stories high or you have to only build single family homes it doesn't matter.

And that's the point. The problem isn't caused by automation, it's caused by zoning restrictions.

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