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Person switches from moderate right to far left by doing absolutely NOTHING
#politics #uspol #socialist #communist #marxist #ubi #universalbasicincome #meme #memes #funny
Should companies be forced to pay a "minimum wage" for their AI? π€π°
There is a massive debate heating up in the tech world right now around a concept called the "Robot Tax."
As artificial intelligence continues to automate workflows and replace specific human roles, some industry leaders and economists are arguing that corporations should have to pay a tax equivalent to a human's wage when they replace a worker with an automated system.
Here is why it's being proposed:
πΉ Funding the Future: The tax revenue would go directly toward funding social safety nets or a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to support displaced human workers.
πΉ The Economy Problem: Simply put, robots don't buy groceries, cars, or houses. If too many humans lose their incomes to automation, the consumer economy collapses.
But there is major pushback:
πΈ The Innovation Killer: Critics argue that taxing efficiency will completely stifle technological progress.
πΈ The Math Problem: How do you even calculate the tax? It is almost impossible to accurately measure exactly how many "human jobs" a single AI software model replaces.
This isn't a sci-fi movie concept anymoreβit's a real economic debate happening right now as AI gets smarter.
Where do you stand?
π€ Is a "Robot Tax" a necessary safety net to protect our economy, or a terrible idea that will just punish innovation?
Let's debate in the comments! π
#FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #TechDebate #UniversalBasicIncome #Automation #DigiGlitch #TechTrends
βA world with #UniversalBasicIncome is more meritocratic than a world without one, because luck-based distribution β which is what we have now β throws away most of the talent in the room.
βA #UBI world isnβt a world that rewards laziness. Itβs a world where the Einsteins and the Khns and the Kleks and the creatives youβve never heard of yet actually get a shot at mastery that their talent deserves, instead of getting filtered out at age 19 because they couldnβt afford rent.β
https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/

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They are hard on the economy:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=186
That Kitchener UBI consultation may have been in regards to the Provincial UBI plan, perhaps to get Kitchener included. This was January 2017 when provincial Liberals were still planning the UBI pilot. But the provincial UBI plan went only to Hamilton/Brantford, Lindsay, and Thunder Bay (not Kitchener/Waterloo), and was cancelled when the Conservatives came to power in 2018.
This is a fascinating thread about the idea of a universal basic income. There have been many experiments testing a UBI in the world and people keep debating it....but in countries with a state funded old age pension, we have a massive real time UBI experiment....in the case of Aotearoa NZ for 88 years.
....so what happens when people turn 65 and get a universal basic income.... We live our best lives! Including stacks of volunteering.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #Pension #UniversalPension #NZPol
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Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI. Stop asking virtue of the poor which you donβt of the rich.