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Robotic and artificial intelligence technologies have been tremendously improved over the past de... more Robotic and artificial intelligence technologies have been tremendously improved over the past decades, causing profound changes in the production and service industries. Subsequently, large companies are spending billions on future technology. It is an area that has raised questions, including what will happen if the new technology results in the loss of millions of jobs within a short duration and what would happen if most companies no longer need the service of humans. Contemporary society rests on the premise that governments and companies need workers to perform paid tasks. Everything, including how systems are designed and structures are operated, requires workers’ labor. One of the core functions of the government is to ensure that the employment rate has been maximized and prices of products have been kept at considerably low prices (Oberson, 2019). In fact, since most of the government's taxes come from workers’ income, replacing employees with robots would substantially impact the government. To help address this challenge, the idea of Robot Tax was proposed. A robot tax’s basic premise is that businesses pay a tax when they replace a human worker with a robot. This paper looks deeper into the motivations behind Robot Tax policy, its challenges, and implications, as well as propose alternative measures to adapt to the rise of automation and its impacts on economic growth.
Robotic and artificial intelligence technologies have been tremendously improved over the past de... more Robotic and artificial intelligence technologies have been tremendously improved over the past decades, causing profound changes in the production and service industries. Subsequently, large companies are spending billions on future technology. It is an area that has raised questions, including what will happen if the new technology results in the loss of millions of jobs within a short duration and what would happen if most companies no longer need the service of humans. Contemporary society rests on the premise that governments and companies need workers to perform paid tasks. Everything, including how systems are designed and structures are operated, requires workers’ labor. One of the core functions of the government is to ensure that the employment rate has been maximized and prices of products have been kept at considerably low prices (Oberson, 2019). In fact, since most of the government's taxes come from workers’ income, replacing employees with robots would substantially impact the government. To help address this challenge, the idea of Robot Tax was proposed. A robot tax’s basic premise is that businesses pay a tax when they replace a human worker with a robot. This paper looks deeper into the motivations behind Robot Tax policy, its challenges, and implications, as well as propose alternative measures to adapt to the rise of automation and its impacts on economic growth.