Slade3200
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You make a fine observation. I myself as an entrepreneur have been a part of 5 start ups and am always looking for the new innovative ideas to make systems easier and better. But I also recognize the impact that automation has had on our society. I recognize the quality of hand crafted artwork over mass produced junk from china, I recognize the value we get from the minimum wage and middle class workforce. We need to be conscious of these things and keep a healthy balance between free market capitalism, innovation, and technology with the spirit of community, customer service, quality, and human interactionBravo Ray, we usually go head to head but I'll give you kudos when you get one right. Good to see you have some foresight on this oneGouging business owners for technological advances is robbery.The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates
Here's a novel idea. How about we LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS
How about both.
I'm of the opinion that any co.psny replacing workers with technology should be picking up.AT LEAST the amount of taxes that the displaced worker was paying.
I'm also in fact or of SLASHING the Federal budget to the bone.
No different of robbery than taxing cigarettes, alcohol, not having healthcare insurance just to name a few. If it's not taxation, it's regulations such as environmental standards that cost my industry a ton of money and problems.
Offshoring is a problem, but pales in comparison to automation. As businesses invest in automation, that slashes jobs greatly. So what are we supposed to do, just sit back and let it happen?
Not everybody has the talent or smarts to get into careers that require college or vocational training. What are we going to do with these people when robots take all their jobs? Well......we are going to have to support those people......more so than we already are.
So taxing automation is not all that bad of an idea to try and slow down the cancer.
Thank you. I was thinking about this thread today when I went to Home Depot to buy a motion detector light. I waited in line for a couple of minutes because of the customer in front of me. When I got to the cashier, she said "you didn't have to wait, you could have used the self-checkout line for this one item." I replied "I could of, but eventually that would put you out of a job" and we both laughed as she agreed with me.
Maybe I'm just getting older or something, but I remember the days when lowest price didn't mean everything. When I was a kid, everything was delivered because most women were stay-at-home wives, and in most cases, they didn't drive or were a one car family. We used to have a milk man, a juice man, a rag man, a Charlie Chips man, a laundry man, and a man that delivered the groceries. Nobody pumped their own gasoline. You had an attendant do it.
All those people eventually lost their jobs because we chose the cheaper route which is go to the store and buy these items yourself. Now we don't even want to work, we want machines to do our jobs.