Sunday, June 16, 2019

Is Tax on Ai Robots Ok

No, it s a tax on intellectual property and the creators of artificial intelligence have brought huge value, efficiency, innovation,creativity and genius to bear on discovering and inventing the technology that allows tremendous exponential improvements in productivity to business and industry and for that sin they are to be punished with swingeing taxation?

This would be a tax on creativity and genius and makes as much sense as taxing the inventor of the tractor for reducing the workforce on the land and raising productivity a thousandfold.

Intellectual property is a vital component of the capitalist system where virtual reality plays an essential role in the economy and a tax on that is a tax on man's mind and creativity. Taxing robots sounds seductively appealing  to the unthinking because it implies it is not a tax on a human being but a souless robot and machine but as the robot and artificial intelligence is the brain child of human being it is every bit as much a tax on humans as the traditional taxation but in a sense it is worse as the amount of effort, brainpower and genius that went in to creating this amazing revolutionary invention involve heroic acts of supreme intellectual genius  such that it should be respected all the more that the brawn of a million drone workers merely repeating the learned and taught motions of others. 

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