Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
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Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#2In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#3In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
Before we go taxing machines, we might start with reducing payroll taxes.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#4The author is talking about "marketing automation". She means sending spam emails and getting cold-call phone number lists.
(The site has a new, painful way to display a text document. The upper half of the screen is locked to a picture of the author.)
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#5The author is talking about "marketing automation". She means sending spam emails and getting cold-call phone number lists. (The site has a new, painful way to display a text document. The upper half of the screen is locked to a picture of the author.)
It’s a video + clickable interactive transcript, but if you prefer to read only there’s a ‘collapse’ button to make the video area a bit smaller.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#6In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
Before we go taxing machines, we might start with reducing payroll taxes.
The long-term (and very successful in many countries) right-leaning policy strategy for decades has been replacing inheritance and capital gains and corporate profit taxes with income taxes, income taxes with (capped) payroll taxes, property taxes with sales taxes, shifting liability from corporations to employees and customers, privatizing public infrastructure and services, breaking down collective bargaining rights, cutting real minimum wages and worker protections, etc., as a way of shifting financial burdens away from capital and the financial services industry and the idle rich and toward workers and citizens. You’re going to need a huge political upheaval and significant effort to educate the public to push things back in the other direction.
Instead of taxes on automation I would recommend taxes on wealth and land value taxes, and very steep taxes on large inheritances, along with scrutinizing/outlawing various ways of hiding wealth by shifting it around between complicated webs of anonymous shell companies.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#7The author is talking about "marketing automation". She means sending spam emails and getting cold-call phone number lists. (The site has a new, painful way to display a text document. The upper half of the screen is locked to a picture of the author.)
The layout feels like the good old iframe days.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#8In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
You should read Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano if you haven't already, I think it's relevant to your interests.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#9In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
Before we go taxing machines, we might start with reducing payroll taxes.
Or increasing taxes on land and various forms of unearned income.
Re: Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate
#10In my mind the only viable solutions are a form of automation tax along with universal income. Or some form of democratic and decentralized automation.
You should read Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano if you haven't already, I think it's relevant to your interests.
There's a book that discussions Player Piano and extends upon its ideas, called Four Futures by Peter Frase.
I strongly recommend Four Futures.