[Lemmy]

en:

[BartSimpson]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Title is misleading. Story is not about AI or rights for robots. It's about loss of government tax and benefit program revenue that would arise as workers are replaced with machines. Robots don't earn salary and therefore don't pay income tax or make other government benefit contributions. Yet the employer continues to make money and actually increases their profit margin because no wages to pay. Ergo, the proposal is to find a way to tax some of that savings. For example, Employer makes social security contributions per each robot to fund social security for humans.

tl;dr = You want to tax power tools.

[BRAH]

Lemmy Lemmy:

BRAH BRAH:

Will it be against the Law to bang androids like that? Asking for a friend.

Of course not. The hooker-bots'll have that labour market cornered ( ) too. And there's some things you can't pay a woman to do, no matter how much you offer, that could be easily programmed.

So, what's your fembot's name?

[Jabberwalker]

Has UNIFOR recruited any of the robots in Oshawa into their union, yet?

[andyt]

xxx

[andyt]

If MARVIN runs for PM, do you think he will capture the silicon vote? They won't all just vote for their own kind, will they?