Friday, August 3, 2018

On taxing companies for automating their production lines

"It would be nice by the government to introduce some kind of robo-tax and spread that value among people of the country."
No, it wouldn't. It's just wrong to tax businesses for having better tools, you are essentially saying that companies should be forced to hire people that don't even work nor aren't needed in the company. It would be a different issue if the government had its own automated production and distributed what it produces among the citizens.

I think the "robo-tax" is like taxing a bakery for not having a hairdresser on their payroll, and they don't have one because they don't need one. No one is obliged to hire you or pay money for not hiring you. You are punishing someone for not needing you. Wth? I mean I'm not seeing you being forced to pay just because you don't need someone else.

Besides where do you even draw the line: Every time you send a text message, you have automated the task of a courier; you took the courier's job you heartless evil person, you should use a courier service to deliver those messages or pay a courier for using your cell phone, even though texting is much more efficient and cheaper. Everyone owning a Roomba should pay tax for using them, because some housecleaners are out of job because of it. Everyone should pay taxes for using fans instead of fanning servants. So in essence you are able to do stuff by yourself with the help of technology, but you for some reason are supposed to be punished for it.

TL;DR: Needy people feel entitled to stuff that more independent people have. People who enable themselves to do stuff without needing other people to do it, aren't allowed to do so, because why exactly?

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