The idea is to tax automation to slow down automation so that us humans, simply struggle and burn out a bit longer on jobs that will disappear even faster than we thought.
This is dumb, Bill. And I suspect you know this.
The thing that needs to happen right now is not automation taxes, it’s UBI and redistribution of wealth. We have a lot of wealth in this world. Wealth is created by all of us from direct work, wealth transfer or through tax breaks. We all pay for wealth in some way, from taxes we pay when we could use that money, to defunding systems that we need and will cost us, like Planned Parenthood. We’re all together in this and it’s always the same people who are affected that is, most of us. That needs to stop.
Some people have so much money they will never go through it in their lifetime, even by living lavishly, even with their families. Some people truly don’t even know what to do with their money besides buying the dumbest shit like gold-plated cars and 300 room houses.
And then you die and that money just sits there. It’s wildly inefficient.
We need to redistribute wealth and automate everything at the same exact time, full speed. By slowing down those inevitable processes and making them work against each other, we fuck everything up. We create a terrible political bed of us VS tech, which is idiotic. Yes, Redistributing & Automating at the same time means that we highlight the absurdity of the current state of affair which is that people get in massive debt and burn out on more or less shitty jobs.
I’m fine with showing what we all know.