Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by JoachimS on Saturday August 16, 2014 @03:24AM
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The big question is being able to finance basic income when a large and growing part of the population is unemployed. Where is the tax base?
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Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by anigbrowl on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:45PM
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The capital-intensive entities that own all the robots and whose revenue comes from human consumption.
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by JoachimS on Sunday August 17, 2014 @01:20AM
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Human consumption hinges on the fact that the humans have income to buy stuff to consume. Are you saying we shall tax the company profits in order to pay people basic income to provide means needed to consume stuff to create these required profits. And that the profits are staying in the tax jurisdiction as well as not getting tax breaks the owners lobbied for using previous profits.
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by zokier on Saturday August 16, 2014 @05:12AM
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> Where is the tax base?
In corporations?
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by JoachimS on Sunday August 17, 2014 @01:26AM
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Corporations can move out of the jurisdiction with corp tax much easier than humans. And judging by Apple etc, they are pretty good at getting tax brakes, buy legislation.
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by justincormack on Saturday August 16, 2014 @06:29AM
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Or on robots?
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by JoachimS on Sunday August 17, 2014 @01:23AM
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More plausible since it directly connects to the problem at hand. But when you replace humans with algorithms how do you determine what to tax and how much?
Re:AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
by justincormack on Sunday August 17, 2014 @11:43AM
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Value added taxes/sales are plausible if they are selling stuff.