If you start from scratch there's no difference between a human labor tax and a consumption tax
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu
When a human makes a product, the government skims $10,000. Robot makes the product, govt skims $0. (Both should be $0.)
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Income = Consumption - Saving. Income - Saving (Capital) = Labor. Consumption = Labor.
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @ESYudkowsky
Doesn't apply fully if you switched now, because consumption would also fall on old wealth.
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu
If you don't think the current system is unfair, can I please be redefined as a robot so I don't need to pay taxes?
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
I support moving to a consumption tax system (for efficiency not 'fairness').
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @ESYudkowsky
Consumption taxes are preferable precisely because they don't tax robots.
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @ESYudkowsky
A robot tax is just a tax on future consumption. See:https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/capitaltaxesarebad …
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @ESYudkowsky
But I think people proposing robot taxes do so to preserve jobs as ends in themselves
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The real risk of a Robot-Tax is "What a robot is?" excel spreadsheet, AI program or Industrial Robot?
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That's easy, a "robot" is a system owned by a business too small to afford lawyers.
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