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by MisterTea 247 days ago
> Or, perhaps it's time for universal basic income?

Funded by Carters idea where we tax corporations for job elimination. For every head you reduce with automation you pay a tax to help support that head in their time of unemployment. Then we tax the automation products.

Of course with the current government situation this isn't happening. Ever.

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Sounds unironically great, this way only startups that have nobody to fire will grow let GM figure out how to file the paperwork and another company can replace it