Deployed well, both a robot tax and a basic income could fit comfortably into a redistributive agenda
Automated labor apocalypse: Why a French socialist’s case for taxing robots is better than Bill Gates’ idea Now that he won’t be labor secretary, Andy Puzder will be free to keep running his fast food empire the way he likes: with low wages, rampant wage theft and sky-high rates of sexual harassment. Because humans do pesky things like complain and demand decent hours and collective bargaining rights, Puzder has toyed with the idea of replacing them with robots. As he’s put […]
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