Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

ragica@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tax productivity, not work. Worker productivity has skyrocketed in the past few decades, but taxes have remained constant. So the rich have been able to extract increasing amounts of productivity, while paying proportionally less and less in taxes. Meanwhile, worker wages have remained stagnant, meaning their productivity has gone up but they’re still being paid (and taxed) the same.

  Wealth taxes should still absolutely be a thing, but they should be entirely divorced from a work (productivity) tax.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds great, but how would you objectively quantify productivity

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    • blueduck@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How much did a company spend to product the widget?

      How much is the widget worth?

      The difference of those two is productivity

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  • vega208@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tax wealth.

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• sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tax land in particular. Can’t hide land easily from tax office.

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