Businesses' decision to switch to robots will only result in 'robot taxes'. How else will the 'minimum living wage' be paid to unemployed?
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Universal basic income makes a lot more sense than robot taxes. We need to adapt to technology rather than to impede it.
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Agreed. Encourage innovation and use a land value tax to fund a basic income https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pYSsME_h7E&sns=tw …
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No, it needn't be a land value tax. Economic efficiency is not the only criterion.
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Well those in power can either get behind a Basic Universal Income or prepare for upheaval.
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Thank you


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It also hurts marginal workers and subskilled workers. Increases social net costs in the long run.
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Dumb premise. If it can be done with robots most likely was headed there anyways. Don't scare people into believing they're not worth it
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So quit demanding a livable wage or we're just going to get replaced by robots? They would do this anyway.
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It's the same reason all your precious manufacturing jobs got shipped overseas.
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Why pay a livable wage, benefits, retirement when you can hire a guy in China to do it for less than half? Or a robot to do it better?
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Democrats and the Left are pro-robot.
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No business can afford to pay a kid, who can't make change for a twenty, $15 an hour!
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They'll hire
#illegalimmigrants. Oh wait#trump
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writes the guy who's worth $45 million off the stolen wages of real-life burger flippers
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