We need new jobs we can't imagine would exist for sure

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/elon-musk-humans-robots-slow-down-tesla-model-3-production

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The question is if we can get them fast enough

Would you rather technically progress be halted now? Or perhaps in the 1700s? Because of fear of us not figuring shit out?

No

necessity is the mother of invention

The only way to predict the future is to limit it's possiblities.

But redistribution of wealth from machine to man is worth discussing

Is it? Does redistribute of wealth work?

how much you wanna redistribute?

That's part of the discussion

Feast might not come for anyone who survives the depression though

And can you prove it is not the default state of the market?

machines do not have wealth, they are someone's.

Yes, they are. Just as we tax cars we can tax automation.

The obvious answer is tax them then

you don't tax the car though, you tax its owner

What happens to the economy when everyone starts hording wealth?

You tax the car, the owner pays if

It even

yes, but you tax a minor portion,

How much would you tax the robots?

We tax the owner for owning the car. The car is a choice. Using automation is a choice.

Taxing cars means the poor can't have cars.

Economy slows down if people horde wealth

And it should be minor and based on the call produced

I live in such a state.

Or Fiat I should say

listen if i can buy a can of beans for 50% of what I am paying now, Idc if they replaced the human workers with robots. And that leaves me 50% to spend on other shit.

it just forces people to look for ways around it so they can have a car and still afford food and rent

Cuz in my experience, companies that get taxed more just raise prices to compensate

meaning you're giving wealth to people, who will gain nothign due to them losing purchasing power

By taxing the production of automation we tax according to ability to pay

taxes are paid by the buyers, always.

not the sellers

yes, but they're getting it from the welfare generated by the robot owners

This is really nothing different than Trump's tarriffs. You tax production you find less socially appealing (imports) to encourage production in a more appealing manner (domestic)

who hike prices to the sellers

We should consider some rather crazy policy for short term strictly

I'm actually playing from Trump's playbook here

the difference here though is that instead of taxing outsiders, you're taxing your own