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		SixSigma on May 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robo... And the profit went to the shareholders - pensioners and 401k holders.

dzhiurgis on May 26, 2016 [–]

While most of the tax goes into bureaucracy.

The idea of taxing automation sounds like discouragement of increasing the efficiency. If anything we should subsidise it!

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