In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.
AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.
All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!
Tax all AI companies to fund UBI.
If we had representation…
FTFY
You know it is curious that the common folk bear the tax burden while getting no representation and thr ownership class gets allnthe representation but evades taxes.
This echoes something I learned in history way back when we were occupied and had to contend with monarchs. Funny Numbers Or Fight!, Better Dead Than Red! Fuck Off With Your Stompy Jackboots! and such.
“Ummm then we’re not an AI company”
Land Value Taxes are better for this in literally every way.
I like my idea because it will discourage greedy wasteful destructive nonsense and at least get something for public benefit.
Unlike extraction enterprises.
Money is what they listen to and worship. That’s where it hurts.
If we want to address all of those, then we’ll need higher pollution taxes too. Going after only one abstract category of greed will encourage them to bullshit it into another category.
We’ve needed those for decades, it needs to be very expensive.
You’re right. Don’t tax entities that have massive sales but work out of a small office, like an AI powered company might
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Like the Googleplex, or OpenAI’s cheap San Francisco land.
Andrew Yang should’ve been president