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Automation/Robot Taxes: Companies that replace human workers with machines could be taxed on the value created by automation. Bill Gates famously suggested this.

Wealth & Capital Taxes: As wealth increasingly concentrates in owners of AI, data, and robotics infrastructure, taxing capital gains, large fortunes, or corporate profits could recycle wealth back to society.

Resource Rents (Land, Energy, Data):

Land value taxes (Henry George’s idea, revived).

Carbon/resource taxes (tying UBI to sustainability).

Data dividends: since individuals generate data that trains AI, governments could mandate payouts from companies monetizing it.

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Like Alaska’s Permanent Fund (oil revenues fund annual dividends), nations could create funds seeded with taxes on AI-driven industries, intellectual property, or natural resources.

Since we are now effectively governed by corporate interests, there is approximately 0.0% chance they will volunteer to pay more tax.

This is the only one that will be enacted, because frick us:

Value-Added Taxes (VAT): A broad consumption tax (like in Europe) could fund UBI. Since AI will increase production and lower costs, some argue taxing consumption spreads the burden more fairly.

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Posted by Nutriaitch

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Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:18 am to stout

wouldn't "Hazardous Materials Removal" be one of the jobs that we would kinda want AI to take over?

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Posted by AwgustaDawg

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Posted on 8/26/25 at 11:59 am to stout

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Elon claims there will be mass abundance due to AI making everything cheap so there will not really be a need to work

Sounds like a socialist wet dream to me

Damn near there now. The need to do much physical labor even in occupations most would consider physically demanding is about 1/10th as hard physically as it would have been 50 years ago. I watched a pulpwood company clear about 100 acres 3 weeks ago with 5 men, 4 driving pulpwood trucks, and a machine with another one driving it, in about 30 hours. Tractor would be idle about 20% of the time waiting on one of the trucks to get back from the chipping mill. The only time any of them were under their own power was when they had to piss or were shooting the shite....the rest of the time it was almost akin to harvesting grain straight from the tractor to a truck....in the mid 70s that shite would have taken a couple of 3 months of running chain saws....I am not even sure they had a chainsaw with them....

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