The capitalist oligarchy will never allow UBI. They want people desperate and starving so they’ll take any crumbs tossed their way.
Corporations will just make everything more expensive relatively to the amount of extra income everyone is getting. Cause why wouldn’t they? They’ll probably blame labor shortages again too.
“At this stage, proposals on how to implement a robot tax in practice remain very nebulous,” she says. “Legislators are likely to deal with the complexity of defining what constitutes a ‘robot’ and how to tax it. The distinction between a machine and a robot or between a computer program and AI is still not clear.”
Considering that virtually all industries are going to become AI powered to one degree or another in the near future, perhaps it would be more straightforward to demand a proportion of shares of any publicly traded company, and some equivalent for the larger non publicly traded companies, and distribute dividends directly.
taxes
They’re not enough imo
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Remarkable! You managed to make a comment that says nothing and still makes you look like a complete asshole. Neat trick, that.
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You think there’s no point in calling out assholes? That it makes you as bad as them? Smells like a centrist!
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“Universal basic income” is a lie. It should be a crime to lie to people who are struggling.
