Remember, in USA companies are people, so they bribe the government with donations just like people, also money is free speech.
If they are people, they should pay taxes, why not? I say DO IT
Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
fishos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a moronic take. Do we also tax tools when they make a 4 person job a 1/2 person job? This is just an ass backwards way of approaching the wealth inequality and poor working conditions issues by focusing on a tool instead of the system itself.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
fishos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I hate that so much. Being “people” they can essentially “out-compete” actual people in the political process. It’s very much “anything you can do I can do better”. That’s why any solution has to target them directly.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And the companies can exist for centuries, acquiring all of that enormous wealth, and “donate” a tiny sliver of it to politicians and watch them fight over the scraps.
fishos@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I wish we treated corporate crimes as personal crimes committed by the CEO. If they want the cover of personhood, then they get everything that comes with that. See how fast they want to return to being corporations. As it is now, they get the best of both worlds as it suits them.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI is ruining our climate, RAM prices, HDD prices qnd more. They should pay a lil extranfor that
IronBird@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
climate being ruined long before ai, and the PC hardware is just suppliers being allowed to price-gouge people.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a moronic take.
It’s just a capital gains tax
architect@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I mean, we easily could.
I pay property tax on my business tools.
So you just extend that concept. I don’t see why not.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ok apparently we do in fact tax tools. And I can see how AI, being on the cloud, might not normally fall under computer equipment or other things that would be taxed, this needing it to be specifically included in tax law. Fuck me on that one.
I’ll give you that.
BUT
I still stand by this being a bandaid to a much larger problem concerning capitalists exploiting the labor of many and not being required to give everyone fair pay/equity. The inequality between the workforce and the ownership class is the problem. Them using AI is just their current tool of oppression, but not their only.
We need to address the root cause and directly tax the billionaires. And remove stock backed loans or at least realize their gains and tax them whenever they do use them as collateral for a loan. Shouldnt be able to claim unrealized gains and use it for collateral at the same time.