I disagree on automation taxation as that is exactly what we want for post scarcity. What we really need to do is tax all forms of income progressively. No lower corp or capital gains or such. land tax possibly to. if it was like star trek that is a bit hard to handle as many of the things I might work out would theoretically already be solved.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good point on the taxation, as taxing automaton may result in less incentive to automate.
IMO the Star Trek type utopia would only work if we had replication technology like they have in the show. Those machines that essential make anything you want from food/water to material things out of thin air.
HubertManne@kbin.social 2 months ago
well its possible once machines can source materials, build themselves, and repair themselves we will have what it takes assuming they can do that with spare cycles to farm and such. I don't think we quite need replicators although something like that or nanobots on that level will help a lot. We certainly have to moderate our consumption unless we figure out how to actually live in space and source from other solar bodies.