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Dr. Mar
@boldnewme.bsky.social
Jul 4, 08:16 PM
Question: Who will pay taxes if everyone has lost their jobs to AI data centers? The short answer: people can’t pay income taxes if they no longer have income. The quandary: if AI-powered data centers replace millions of workers, governments can’t rely on income taxes alone. What’s next?
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"Do you know every billionaire, every single billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, every single one has said, AI's coming. It's coming for your jobs. There's nothing you can do about it. And your taxes are gonna fund the whole thing. And half the country is like, God damn, fucking Mexicans."
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Dr. Mar
@boldnewme.bsky.social
· Jul 4, 02:11 PM
Question: Who will pay taxes if everyone has lost their jobs to AI data centers? The short answer: people can’t pay income taxes if they no longer have income. The quandary: if AI-powered data centers replace millions of workers, governments can’t rely on income taxes alone. What’s next?
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">LJ Hazen</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 06:13 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">I'm more worried it's another bullshit tech bubble. when it bursts craters world economy. taking with it a bunch of retirement funds that have been invested in it without telling ppl. not to mention all the gov funds that have been wasted on it. 😡🤬😫</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">VagrantGuru</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 02:16 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">They're going to force people to rely on the government, which they'll reject as &quot;socialism&quot;, then the people will burn everything to the ground.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Dosco Jones</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 10:58 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Citizen, you will still owe taxes. If you cannot pay them then you will work in the camps until your debt is paid.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Sara Martín</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 02:22 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Tax AI corporations 90% of their earnings and give citizens salaries from those taxes. Easy.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Shawn of the North</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@socrates99ab.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 02:16 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Good question. I’ve heard tech bros kick around universal basic income but that has lots of resistance. I don’t see the tech oligarchs, billionaires or giant corporations doing anything about these problems unless they are forced to. They are quintessentially selfish.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Loren Savander-Echevarria</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 03:10 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">The funniest part is that it was H1b visa holders who took the good jobs away, all at the behest of elite males running the show -- even if it meant depriving educated trained locals from the dominant ethnoracial group...</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 03:10 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Greed has no boundaries. Despite these facts, I see no genuine effective efforts towards interethnic worker solidarity.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">AnneNotAnne🦋🐈⬛💙</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 03:25 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Musk has said their goal is to get AI to do everyone’s jobs including government jobs. They don’t care about us. The rich think it won’t affect them. But what happens when we don’t have jobs and unable to buy things?</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Michael Belfiore</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 03:38 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Makes no logical sense at all. Of course the whole flimsy house of cards comes crashing down if everyone’s out of work and there’s nothing left to extract from us.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Joost Wery</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 4, 04:57 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Then we lose our purpose for them :-)</p>
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