• Blackout@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If Amazon doesn’t need employees then they don’t need tax breaks. In fact add a new tax for any business that switches to robot labor. They can pay the missing personal wages in taxes. Texas makes electric car drivers pay more for not using gas, this seems like the same thing.

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      1 year ago

      Disagree. There’s no need to pay taxes if you don’t employ anyone. No salaries - no salary taxes. Also Texas is backwards.

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      1 year ago

      Charge everyone that uses computers then, instead of using secretaries to do everything.

      Stupid idea because it incentives inefficiencies. Taxes need to be made up elsewhere like in vat or income tax.

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        1 year ago

        Computers didnt reduce jobs, they created many more.

        Amazon (along with others) absolutely destroyed jobs, killed competition and violated antitrust laws. All because they were wealthy and could buy their way out. Then they treated their employees with contempt (piss-bottles) and made them work in unsafe work environments (Illinois tornado). They deserve to be broken up like all monopoly-like businesses.