Along with the discussion of the government paying “basic income” to all citizens, some advocate a robot tax. KAIST Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy Dean Lee Kwang-hyung and Tim Dunlop, author of “Why the Future is Workless,” are notable champions of the robot tax. Their premise is the end of working.
As robots will replace human jobs, there should be an imposed tax to secure the source of revenue for basic income.
Regardless of one’s position on basic income and the robot tax, we all agree that many of the jobs today will become unnecessary in the near future. […]
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