The US tax code encourages the replacement of human workers with robots, BU research says. Photo by Eric Krull/Unsplash BU’s Pascual Restrepo on how the tax code rewards businesses for automating
Science fiction like The Terminator franchise has created the enduring meme of malevolent robots overthrowing humanity. The notion that we’d actually pay for them to replace us is so far-fetched that even Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t imagined it. But the government has.
Through the US tax code, we’ve inched ever closer to Andrew Yang’s dreaded Robocalypse of automation sweeping the workplace, according to a recent paper cowritten by BU economist […]
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