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It’s not about logic. It’s about humanity. We are losing.




1. No, we are not losing. 2. If it was true that we were losing, then tax revenue would be the least of our worries.

I hope you still feel you arent losing when your job is gone and thus your income and woops there goes your home because you cant afford your rent/mortgage anymore.

Rent/mortgage would be dirt cheap if you didn't have to live near a job.

It's never been easier to live far from your job, yet rent/mortgage prices are higher than ever.

Sure but price to income has never been lower if you're willing to move and work remotely (or retire on investment income) somewhere cheaper.

If you want to live in the best real estate in the world and expect to continue doing so when you have no job, that's not going to happen. If you're willing to adapt and spread out you can live better and freer than ever in a hypothetical world where AI has taken most jobs.


Boy I wish I lived in your reality.

1. We are absolutely losing. Wealth inequality has never been higher in human history. How does a single human amass such wealth when his physical and intellectual output doesn’t even match that level of equivalent worth? The first reason is he scrapes it off others, and the second reason is technological automation. AI is just one bump in the road of technological innovation magnifying work output.

2. I never said tax is the end all be all of the situation. It’s one attribute we can use to combat AI take over and wealth inequality in the face of a multitude of solutions that can be executed. It is not consistent with logic as shown by the wheel barrow example and I am saying it doesn’t need to be. Understand?


This was an article about AI and income tax policy, but you’re making arguments about inequality.

Sure doesn't feel like it. Life's never been better for more people.

That’s because you’re rich. And all your friends are probably rich.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/07/what-is-the-k-shaped-economy-...




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