{"id":4497,"date":"2017-11-21T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:04:27","slug":"sf-supervisor-jane-kim-proposes-taxing-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/sf-supervisor-jane-kim-proposes-taxing-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Supervisor Jane Kim Proposes Taxing Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, SF Supervisor Jane Kim launched a campaign called Jobs of the Future Fund, with intentions to find solutions for those who will inevitably lose jobs as automation increases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proceeds from the tax would bankroll things like job retraining, free community college, or perhaps a universal basic income\u2015countermeasures Kim thinks might make a robotic future more bearable for humans,&#8221; says&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tax-the-rich-and-the-robots-californias-thinking-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign&#8217;s site states that this &#8216;automation revolution&#8217; has the potential to eliminate more jobs than the Great Depression and Great Recession combined. As much as half of the jobs in the US will disappear &#8220;through the transition to robot, algorithms or other forms of automation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4500\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4500 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/google-self-driving-cars-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Google self-driving cars.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber is piloting self-driving cars. (AP Photo\/Eric Risberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jobs of the Future is an organization and outreach program that asks for policy makers, labor leaders, businesses and civic organizations to start thinking about solutions to this problem.<\/p>\n<p>The solution their touting: a statewide California tax on automated robots, just like our workers today are being taxed (<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/911968\/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes\/\">inspiration taken from Bill Gates<\/a>). If companies are required by law to pay taxes for the automation the money can be funneled into education and retraining for those whose jobs have become obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>As Kim reminds us, this is all very new territory. The terms &#8216;job displacement&#8217; and &#8216;automation&#8217; are still actively being defined.&nbsp;If you&#8217;d like to get involved and voice your opinion as Californians start working towards ballot measures, do it here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Donate to their Crowdfunding campaign here.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4501\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4501 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/automatedassembly-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"Taxing Robots\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: TechCrunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, SF Supervisor Jane Kim launched a campaign called Jobs of the Future Fund, with intentions to find solutions for those who will inevitably lose jobs as automation increases. &#8220;Proceeds from the tax would bankroll things like job retraining, free community college, or perhaps a universal basic income\u2015countermeasures Kim thinks might make a robotic future more bearable for humans,&#8221;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[871,613,872,873,96,874],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-paths","category-rise-up","tag-automation-revolution","tag-jane-kim","tag-jobs-for-the-future","tag-robots","tag-tech","tag-uber"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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