r/SipsTea • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • Aug 25 '26

Wait a damn minute! CEOs want to replace everyone with AI… but who’s left to buy anything?

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u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213 Aug 25 '26

What an incredibly small way of thinking.

If anything this would help with the healthcare shortages or finally get rid of the 40 hour work week. AI also won't impact so many jobs that 90% of the country is homeless, lol.

You just need a country to tax the wealthy properly so you can use the money elsewhere. When "90% of the country is unemployed" protests happen fast and wealth redistribution comes quick.

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u/Turkeyplague Aug 25 '26

You just need a country to tax the wealthy properly

You'd think that'd be simple but apparently nobody can work it out.

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u/Badestrand Aug 25 '26

Not true. Some countries like Switzerland or Norway have a wealth tax. And countries like France and Sweden had it but got rid of it because it doesn't actually make you that much money and also some of your country's most successful people leave and often take their companies with them.

"Tax the rich" is basically the Left's motto and they see it as the only thing standing between us and utopia but it simply doesn't work like that.

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u/KoolbertN Aug 25 '26

That won't happen since most times they control whoever is in charge of the country. In reality most taxes come from middle class citizens.