The solution easy:
- AI/Robot tax.
- Tax the rich
- Minimum wage
- Maximum wage
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I like the idea of setting maximum wage as say 50x the lowest wage. Including bonuses and stock.
I don't think the CEO does 50x the work or even the value of the janitor.
Radical idea. What about paying everyone the same, Janitor and CEO? That would truly value everyone's hard work, regardless of which work it is.
But that would take a shift in how we perceive work and what we work for.
That's socialism. Can't have that. Can't even have part of that. Then people want more. And you can't exploit them anymore.
"But anybody can be a janitor!"
And there's still no theoretical cap to how much money the CEO can make, you just also have to raise the ones earning the least in order to pocket more yourself.
Better solution....?!((งツ)ว Give everyone 1 trillion dollars. Then increase income tax well beyond 200% for any income. But Iike the smart version of what I'm trying to describe
Make profit hurt
The solution is easy:
- no more state
Yeah, just work it out. It would be a shame if we eliminated CEOs with AI. I'm sure AI could generate hot air and hubris a lot cheaper than an executive
Technology is probably not too far off from being able to have an AI CEO who doesn't exist at all being able to fool investors into thinking they are a real person.
I mean the article says that in the first paragraph
AI isn’t just coming for entry-level workers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says no job, not even his own, is safe.
And
Yeah, just work it out
I mean yeah, that's what we've always done when there is a major technological disruption, his quote is basically: we're humans, this is what we do
Sure, but he doesn't actually believe that. He's selling a product.
LOL It's actually up us to force CEOs and the government into a situation where they can't do whatever the fuck they want and causes further suffering to everyday people. Complying in advance is so passe, the new thing is: "Fuck you, make me".
If by "work through", he means guillotine the billionaires who caused the job losses and redistrubute their wealth to make up for it, I'm all in.
Pichai will have to work through the disruption of having set billions of dollars on fire and seeing hardly any returns.
Yeah, we will. By ignoring it as much as possible.