Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
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Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#2It appears the main motivation here is to maintain the same level of taxation on a business that switches from human to robot workers for a significant part of the labour undertaken.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#3I can't tell what this is supposed to mean.
Taxing employers for using robots as if they were human employees might be a good idea. But giving robots 'rights and obligations' as if they were human is totally insane.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#4It appears the main motivation here is to maintain the same level of taxation on a business that switches from human to robot workers for a significant part of the labour undertaken.
One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#5It appears the main motivation here is to maintain the same level of taxation on a business that switches from human to robot workers for a significant part of the labour undertaken.
One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.
And how do you isolate a robot "individual"?
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#6I can't tell what this is supposed to mean. Taxing employers for using robots as if they were human employees might be a good idea. But giving robots 'rights and obligations' as if they were human is totally insane.
I can see a case for obligations much more than I can see one for rights.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.
And how do you isolate a robot "individual"?
I suppose you could do it by appendage, but then a humanoid robot would be 4 persons.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
One problem with this is that one human is a pretty constant unit of work in a way that one robot isn't. What if one robot can do the work of 1000 humans? Or what if a very cheap robot does 1/100 of a human's work? Under this system it sounds like they would be taxed the same way.
And how do you isolate a robot "individual"?
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Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#9I can't tell what this is supposed to mean. Taxing employers for using robots as if they were human employees might be a good idea. But giving robots 'rights and obligations' as if they were human is totally insane.
They just want taxes and the ability to control robots "replacing" workers.
Re: Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
#10If I'm a factory worker that gets replaced by a robot, I want a cut. :) But I can't think of how to structure the law so that the company has to lease the robot through the employee they are replacing.