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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

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 🤷‍♂️

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tanel 1y ago

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 🤗

47 1y ago

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

tanel 1y ago

🤔 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

tanel 1y ago

also thank you so so much, this helped me a ton 💜

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47 1y ago

Nice, all good man. 🤙