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"Unskilled labour" is a capitalist myth used to justify poverty wages. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml

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[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And what's the difference between a cashier, who operates a checkout line, and a self-checkout attendant, who operates multiple booths at once? The tax law would have to codify that. And any time you codify something like that, you get people designing to optimize for tax law instead of making the best machines possible.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

There are supermarkets where you don't even check out. You bring the scanner with you and leave the store.

What about self service laundry mats? Those exist for ages. Do we need to tax them because they don't hire people?

I like the idea another user have that you just have normal corporate revenue tax and then if you hire people you get a tax break. But other than that you can't really tax "robots"