• 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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        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.

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          How did the printing press make more jobs?

          It didn’t at least not immediately.

          This is just being a luddite all over again. Higher output and less work for a society is a dream we should all be striving for. Keeping people in shitty jobs because they don’t have another job to go to when we could replace their work is barbaric.

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            I didn’t say keep people in shitty jobs. I said pretty much let’s make Amazon pay back all the tax breaks theyve got and if they want to remove employees tax them for it. Why do you think all the cities in America threw themselves at Amazon and offered $100s of millions of tax breaks to open facilities near them. It was for the jobs they were bringing locally. They want to remove, fine. Other corporations that effectively pay $0 in taxes each year want to dump workers too, that’s cool. They better pay for doing it tho. For running small businesses out of towns. For using genuine antitrust practices to prevent real competition that would have kept wages and jobs safe all these years. They owe the American people. All you guys defending them, defending the failure of capitalism can suck my dick. I’m done fighting this with you.

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              That’s insanity. You can’t draw the line anywhere clearly

              The government fucked up by giving them tax breaks. They operate within the confines of the law, the law needs changing so politicians can’t give them handouts.

              But taxing efficiencies and advancing the world is the worst idea ever.

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                1 year ago

                If the politicians gave it to bezos the people can take it back. You think its fair the sackler family keeps the billions they made for killing 10s of millions of people through the years. Just because what they did was legal at the time. They are going to see justice and I can only hope the billionaires in this country see the same justice for their crimes against the economy.