I think Andrew Yang’s plan was to tax the product of the companies that companies that replaced their workers with automation and that tax would be used to fund the UBI. The automakers are using more and more automations, and able to produce more products and they’re probably saving a ton of money by not having a human worker, but they haven’t passed any of those savings on to the customer. It’s like Walmart replacing all the cashiers with self checkouts but they’re saving money by not paying healthcare, salaries, etc. and these savings are only going into their […]
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