What About Robot Ownership

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The national debt is over $94,000 per adult and child in the US.  Which begs the questioin as to whether AI be taxed. I think so.  It has been reported that AI robots took some 4600 jobs away from humans last year.  That is 4600 people NOT paying taxes on their lost income.  Some might argue that surely those 4600 people found other jobs.  Maybe or maybe not.  But the fact is that owners of an AI robot are liable for paying taxes that would be paid for a living human being.  And why not?  Some might say that robots don't get sick or retire as humans do.  What services can a robot receive from the government?

It's not aboit the robots.  It's about the owners whose robots that have removed humans from the workplace.  Which raises the question as to whether an AI robot is a dependent.  If an owner is taxed for what a human is taxed, can a robot then be listed as a dependent?  That is something that tax laws will have to sort out.  The fact is that as AI replaces humans, each robot replaces at least one less person and probably many more that do not pay taxes and do not pay into social security.  But if a robot owner is taxed, is the government then the owner of each robot and pays for its end of usefulness life destruction?  Maybe.

But the fact is that our national debt cannot be reduced with a reduction of a human workforce.  I am simply suggesting of a way for taxes to be made up when a human loses a job to AI.  As time progresses, AI will be used first to eliminate the most basic jobs normally done by humans.  And AI will progress to eliminate higher level jobs.  As jobs are eliminated employers get the benefit of not paying humans for work done by humans.  

We can slow down the expansion of AI simply by taxing employers for what they'd be taxed for if they were paying humans.  They are not paying the workforce, but are paying the government for an AI workforce that has taken jobs done by humans.  What the employers save is the salary.  But then the question would be asked as to whether the government maintains the robots.  No.  Maintenence is simply a tax write-off for the owners of AI.  

Some people only want to work the most basic of jobs and for some that is all they can do.  Right now AI is eliminating the most basic of jobs, but as AI becomes more developed I see AI operating at all levels of retail, especially.  I can see a time when a Walmart has all AI operations, with a few engineers making sure that AI does not go on strike.  But all jesting aside, Walmart has eliminated the need for humans to stock shelves.  But I can see where stores can be all AI including loss prevention.  There has to be a way for the government to collect taxes from job losses by AI.  If not, inflation will be out of control and only AI can afford to shop Walmart.  

Well, it's just a thought.  No AI can smoke a pipe for me.  I'm smoking my Nording pipe with Mixture No. 79 I received the other day.  I just ordered a pound of Autumn Evening that should arrive by Wednesday.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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