Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
fishos@lemmy.world 16 hours agoI 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.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, that would be great. Unfortunately, our government is working for them now. This is gonna get weird