Also, is wealth static in a system?

Happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

But you're still causing additional distortion which punishes some consumers in your country. What if I don't eat eggs? Or cheese? I'm not sure which is local and which an import in your example.

Gobble

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a smaller distortion though

It's not that Canada doesn't consume cheese and has too many eggs

It's that Canada is playing Cheese favourites and expecting the US to put up with it

Thank you everyone for keeping me awake through my tryptophan coma :-)

what if you can't tax the robots?

say by production being outside of your jurisdiction?

Why is that something to be kept away from?

You tax their fuel and power

what if you can't?

Embrace the food coma

Can’t have robots without a way to make them run

what if you create oil platforms that both produce and dig oil for fuel? 😛

on international waters

The cheese favouritism actually hurts Canadians too. It's a non competitive system within the country

then you can't tax them, adn they can still produce

If we see tarriffs as appropriate then I just maintain taxing robots is an equivalent distortion. You play favorites based on social desirability of production methods.

nobody does

tarriffs are being applied in response to tarriffs having been applied.

I think its funny how touchscreen kiosks aren’t a new thing but they’re still seen as new

in hopes, tarriffs are removed.

i don't use them. and they aren't here anywhere i go.

Robots have an unfair advantage. They don't need to sleep and don't take sick or vacation leave. I insist we negotiate agreements with then that automation only operate 40hrs a week and take three weeks off a year. If they won't, we tax them for unfair advantage.

:p

the whole point is that that then increases supply

That's not the same thing lol

thus driving prices down

in that system you might aswell just not have robots

y you want me to spend more on my damn beans, yo?

ban them outright

So you want to raise the cost of robot production to be like humans, therefore removing the advantage of them being able to produce things for cheaper meaning you can buy them for cheaper.

I go out of my way to avoid automatic sales stations in meat space

This is why redistribution doesn't work.

Or we tax them

I worked retail and know what our is like

If you give everyone basic income, that becomes the new poor who can't afford to live.