01-05-2017, 09:56 PM
(01-05-2017, 01:40 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-03-2017, 11:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-03-2017, 11:38 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: We will need to tax robot-based production heavily to support a guaranteed income. Robots take jobs and generate income for owners. But the common man loses his job, and with his job his income and perhaps his identity. Perhaps -- because many people have no idea of what to do if they had the same income but twenty fewer hours of work a week.
So - a shift to sales taxes instead of income taxes then?
How does that work, if the people paying the sales taxes are unemployed and unemployable? Climb out of your box; an event horizon is approaching. What resides on the other side of an event horizon is unknowable prior to crossing it, and crossing is not optional.
There's no event horizon coming, as discussed in that other thread.