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Comment Re:Yeah... tax the consumers more instead... (Score 0) 392

Tax the robots and the business owners will just raise the prices

Meanwhile, business owers who don't use robots won't get taxed and will keep lower prices, ultimately putting the robot owning businesses out of business. Without being pro- or anti- in this debate, obviously the point of the argument is to strike a balance in the taxation rate such that it remains competitive to keep a human in a role that would otherwise be replaced by a robot. Personally I was under the impression that most jobs that could be mechanised already had been; a lot of it sounds like either techno-utopian pipe dreams or FUD to keep the population from demanding higher wages.

Comment Re:Interesting timing re Trump's claims (Score 2, Interesting) 447

As far as I'm aware, nobody has denied that Trumps (not the US president at the time) phones were tapped as part of an investigation into his shady links with Russia. What is remarkable is his sudden claim without any supporting evidence or context that the then Whitehouse ordered a criminal investigation without any of the people responsible for performing the investigation knowing about it. Basically, it's childishly obvious as bullshit. In a burst of supreme hypocrisy, Trump was literally just last week wailing on the press for publishing articles without naming sources or revealing evidence. He has no sense of decency left whatsoever.

Comment Re: Interesting timing re Trump's claims (Score 0) 447

Well no, Wikileaks is Assange, and to Assange the enemy of his enemy is also an enemy. By revealing CIA hacking methods *now*, he is preventing the Trump government from making use of them. You have to understand that in his own words *his stated political goal* is to prevent conspiracies by breaking all trust between players. He will do anything to accomplish this goal, and it so happens that breaking trust between players in the western world *at the moment* currently aligns with modus operandi of Russian psychops. Therefore, when Russia is attacking the west, he will aid them. Never mind that destabilising the west makes way for the far, far worse murderous criminal Russian oligarchs to seize more power, that doesn't appear to have occured to him. Or maybe he really was turned by the Kremlin, but that would be pure speculation.

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