We're talking trillions of dollars

I still can't believe he's serious about it

Especially since he's got actual experience in buisness and he seems to know a bit about economy

My calculator can't even give me the full number

But just looking at 12,000 a year

For legal citizen adults

3,060,000,000,000 dollars per year

But then you compare that to the cost of the welfare systems he'll be cutting.

And it's still a shitload of money

He was on Joe Rogan and explains it all there, but he's not some retard that just showed up and said "dude money lmao".

And he's argumentation is a fucking gem
"Well you know, muh automation, people are gonna lose their jobs and shit, so let's, uhm, give everybody 1000$ per month, what can go wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsEzmFamZ8

Yeah, automation is a problem
But it's not an actual solution

It's not but how do you propose to get 3.5 million truckers back into the workforce?

And they're not exactly spring chickens who are eager to learn to code like all of those laid off twitter journalists.

You just don't tbh
We have to reform our whole economic system to survive the expediting robotisation
Capitalism is just not gonna be able to work under such conditions no matter how much money will you give to people

Yang's likely an alsoran but the data points he brings up in that podcast are what's interesting.

I'll take a look at it later, but I have to say I'm a bit sceptical

Automation isn't going anywhere and we're far from prepared to do something about the leftover work force.

Wrong

Although I suppose that works out in my favor since they're easier to radicalize and will be down to change things.

We don't have the money

Automated jobs don't send their profits straight to the fed

That's a good point that I didn't consider.

Robots arent taxed yet and the dudes that own any sort of robotic, automated process probably have an offshore bank account.

The only way the government can get money off of automated jobs is to automate government jobs.

Or if offshore accounts were reclassified as tax evasion.

Same with corporate horsecockery, moving the shit offshore to avoid the legal hampers.

Yeah, that's basically the problem with automation under capitalism
You just can't assume that additional profit earned from automated jobs will go straight to the gov and then be redistributed among jobless

And that's only one of the issues

They would just leave the country

Well it would. You'd see it direct out of the owners bank account if they weren't busy dodging taxes and responsibility all the time.

Oh, so we just have to assume that people are honest

Its percentage based, profits made through automation are taxable when they're not running interference against the government.

We dont need any sort of special tax on automation if tax evasion wasn't a thing.

So taxes arent the problem and profits made from automation arent the problem. We already have solutions for that. The owners behaviour is the problem.

https://www.newsweek.com/poland-anti-semitism-newspaper-jews-how-spot-only-poland-racism-neo-nazi-1362406?amp=1

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It's brutal