be taxed?
Is this a trick question to determine if you’re a member of the statist religious cult ?
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purely talking from government budget and spending case here
workforce is increasingly getting replaced by automation, decreasing the amount of tax payers
even if you disagree with this completely bc fuck taxes etc, then just bounce it back to me as a logic exercise atleast
taxation should be based on the amount invested by the company in the automated devices and funds saved by replacing biological humans with said automated methods.
The entire conceptual framework here doesn’t really compute in my brain. I dont think i can reliably offer anything back.
It’s not obvious to me the first statement is reliable or true. Ie automatjon replacing workforce. I think it would be more true to simply say the workforce is changjng. Which is a constant. But are humans being less unit producing per moment of time? I do not know how this would reliably be quantified but i doubt it.
And the idea of the output of that work regardless of who is doing it being arbitrarily redistrubted via a system of legitimized theft called tax makes absolutely no sense to me.
Sorry 🤷♂️
well jobs like being a cashier are being replaced with self-checkout machines that can work 24/7 and a lot of the cashiers don't have many back-up skills do rely upon for example 🤔
but maybe the whole argument of this project is flawed, this is really good and beneficial thought process from your behalf, thank you for sharing it
here to learn 🤗
Yeah i think it would be a huge error to extrapolate an area or two where this is obvious ie a cashier at a shop to “the entire workforce”. And even in those cases where they need less cashiers does it mean they need less people stocking shelves or more? Do they need less or more people performing other tasks etc? All these things depend on sales, customer guest counts and many other things. To narrow the frame down to automation bad we need to steal from somewhere else seems suboptimal
🤔 you make a lot of wonderful points, making me understand things i didn't even think to consider
as this project needs to be done for a university course, then i'm considering pivoting, as i want to keep the topic of automation and the state, and the future of that is like