The billions of dollars these taxes would raise could be put to good use, funding a guaranteed basic income for everyone, as more people are displaced not only from industrial work but many service industry jobs A BellaBot robot greets guests at a restaurant in Michigan. If a robot replaces a worker, that person loses not only their income and benefits but the important social role of work, writes Trevor Hancock. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio I don’t know when I first heard the suggestion that robots should pay taxes, but it was some time in the 1970s, and the idea […]
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