Automation is one of the most pertinent technological and economic hot-button topics of the 21st century. Central to the issue are concerns of job loss and mass displacement, especially within the transportation and marketing sectors.
In the political realm, the European Parliament, not without controversy, rejected a proposal to tax robots (well, businesses that own robots) and re-train the displaced human workers. In America, U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recently embraced a prospective robot and automation tax.
Meanwhile, 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang has built his campaign largely around automation — proposing a universal basic income as one solution to […]
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