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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth

restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-wealth-redistribution

Retraining alone won't save jobs from AI, medieval history suggests: even guild-trained millwrights never saw living standards rise. The fix floated instead is a "robot tax" on automation itself, though critics say taxing an algorithm is harder than it sounds.

— via Rest of World, Alessandro Crimi

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