return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoBernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companiesmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square211linkfedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down115
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minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoJust ban running them on a loss. Maybe even ban running anything at a loss in order to curb competition, etc.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoKurt Vonnegut’s “Player piano” nailed it in 1952: Automation makes factories more efficient, tax that efficiency and give it back to the displaced workers. Of course, since then, we’ve been doing nothing but lowering corporate taxes…
minus-squareUnstoppable_Flop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoCorporate taxes? Is that like military intelligence?
minus-squareUnstoppable_Flop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoYou know, when the government takes your money and gives it to corporations… corporate taxes!
minus-squarescratchee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI think that’s a traditional part of anti-monopoly laws, shame nobody enforces those anymore
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoAnti-monopoly laws have been problematic to enforce since their inception, because their targets are often as powerful as the government that might dare to regulate them.
Just ban running them on a loss. Maybe even ban running anything at a loss in order to curb competition, etc.
Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player piano” nailed it in 1952:
Automation makes factories more efficient, tax that efficiency and give it back to the displaced workers.
Of course, since then, we’ve been doing nothing but lowering corporate taxes…
Corporate taxes? Is that like military intelligence?
Getting there…
You know, when the government takes your money and gives it to corporations… corporate taxes!
I think that’s a traditional part of anti-monopoly laws, shame nobody enforces those anymore
Anti-monopoly laws have been problematic to enforce since their inception, because their targets are often as powerful as the government that might dare to regulate them.