{"id":2989,"date":"2017-03-27T13:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:12:46","slug":"kommt-die-robotersteuer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/kommt-die-robotersteuer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tax on Robots? | Yanis Varoufakis on acTVism Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"4367180bc7ec40988101a9a635081d33\"><strong>A Tax on Robots?<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"4367180bc7ec40988101a9a635081d33\">This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/bill-gates-tax-on-robots-by-yanis-varoufakis-2017-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Syndicate<\/a> and was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhxITUni9OWfCYbsCcTSm98MhcLqR0wcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yanis Varoufakis. <\/a>With permission from Yanis Varoufakis, acTVism republished it and translated it into the German language.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"4367180bc7ec40988101a9a635081d33\">ATHENS \u2013 Ken makes a decent living operating a large harvester on behalf of farmer Luke. Ken\u2019s salary generates income tax and social security payments that help finance government programs for less fortunate members of his community. Alas, Luke is about to replace Ken with Nexus, a robot that can operate the harvester longer, more safely, in any weather, and without lunch breaks, holidays, or sick pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"c60d7a6cd9e346bb8600161dc5275143\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/911968\/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates thinks<\/a> that, to ease the inequality and offset the social costs implied by automation\u2019s displacement effects, either Nexus should pay income tax, or Luke should pay a hefty tax for replacing Ken with a robot. And this \u201crobot tax\u201d should be used to finance something like a universal basic income (UBI). Gates\u2019s proposal, one of many variants on the UBI theme, allows us to glimpse fascinating aspects of capitalism and human nature that rich societies have neglected for too long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"be0d16591d23446e8ac4ac14b10f6f54\">The whole point of automation is that, unlike Ken, Nexus will never negotiate a labor contract with Luke. Indeed, it will receive no income. The only way to simulate an income tax on behalf of Nexus is to use Ken\u2019s last annual income as a reference salary and extract from Luke\u2019s revenues income tax and social security charges equivalent to what Ken paid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"ebeb8750fe734f859e584d3092594f0b\">There are three problems with this approach. For starters, whereas Ken\u2019s income would have changed over time had he not been fired, the reference salary cannot change, except arbitrarily and in a manner setting the tax authorities against business. The tax office and Luke would end up clashing over impossible estimates of the extent to which Ken\u2019s salary would have risen, or fallen, had he still been employed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"3aa37343cce94c8882b22c8563d96dbc\">Second, the advent of robot-operated machines that have never been operated by humans means there will be no prior human income to act as a reference salary for calculating the taxes these robots must pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"60da12baeefa4f469d9f37e568aeb237\">Finally, it is hard philosophically to justify forcing Luke to pay \u201cincome\u201d tax for Nexus but not for the harvester that Nexus operates. After all, both are machines, and the harvester has displaced far more human labor than Nexus has. The only defensible justification for treating them differently is that Nexus has greater autonomy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"d1f9d55088d649079f97166ec3a09e43\">But to what extent is Nexus genuinely autonomous in a manner that the harvester is not? However advanced Nexus might be, it can be thought of as autonomous if and only if it develops consciousness, whether spontaneously or with the help of its makers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"bcb1883a00764b6a858eae8839b3f806\">Only if Nexus (like the Nexus-6 replicants in the 1982 film <i>Blade Runner<\/i>) achieves that leap will \u201che\u201d have earned the \u201cright\u201d to be thought of as distinct from the harvester he operates. But then humanity will have spawned a new species and a new civil rights movement (which I would gladly join) demanding freedom for Nexus and equal rights with Ken \u2013 including a living wage, minimum benefits, and enfranchisement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"1d13a54e46d94d5fb1399b3aba8f6a2a\">Assuming that robots cannot be made to pay income tax without creating new potential for conflict between the tax authorities and business (accompanied by tax arbitrage and corruption), what about taxing Nexus at the point of sale to Luke? That would of course be possible: the state would collect a lump-sum tax from Luke the moment he replaces Ken with Nexus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"654ea961d5504f5dbf541eac4830e2b4\">Gates supports this second-best alternative to making robots \u201cpay\u201d income tax. He thinks that slowing down automation and creating tax disincentives to counter technology\u2019s displacement effect is, overall, a sensible policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"d4f9edf3025d4baca5ef3a965d9e2e1a\">But a lump-sum tax on robots would merely lead robot producers to bundle artificial intelligence within other machinery. Nexus will increasingly be incorporated within the harvester, making it impossible to tax the robotic element separately from the dumb parts that do the harvesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"14c762aa848245fcbdae7b8bedda499c\">Either the robot sales tax should be dropped or it should be generalized into a capital goods sales tax. But imagine the uproar against a tax on all capital goods: Woe betide those who would diminish domestic productivity and competitiveness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"e74d421597c6460ba36fa20d9fb54ee4\">Ever since the emergence of industrial capitalism, we have been terrible at differentiating between property and capital, and thus between wealth, rent, and profits. This is why a wealth tax is so difficult to design. The conceptual problem of differentiating between Nexus and the harvester \u201che\u201d operates would make it impossible to agree on how a robot tax should work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"95923ecc92984c96b119a86bc7022f79\">But why make life under capitalism more complicated than it already is? There is an alternative to a robot tax that is easy to implement and simple to justify: a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/basic-income-funded-by-capital-income-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-10\">universal basic dividend<\/a> (UBD), financed from the returns on all capital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-thumb\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"437932dc61f9493f9f94d4a03d831220\">Imagine that a fixed portion of new equity issues (IPOs) goes into a public trust that, in turn, generates an income stream from which a UBD is paid. Effectively, society becomes a shareholder in every corporation, and the dividends are distributed evenly to all citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"033b0d53f15a4a4cbd297a28f27dbb2b\">To the extent that automation improves productivity and corporate profitability, the whole of society would begin to share the benefits. No new tax, no complications in the tax code, and no effect on the existing funding of the welfare state. Indeed, as higher profits and their automatic redistribution via the UBD boosted incomes, more funds would become available for the welfare state. Coupled with stronger labor rights and a decent living wage, the ideal of shared prosperity would receive a new lease on life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"9b198f217a31424280f51f381829dbea\">The first two industrial revolutions were built on machines produced by great inventors in glorified barns and bought by cunning entrepreneurs who demanded property rights over the income stream \u201ctheir\u201d machines generated. Today\u2019s technological revolution is marked by the increasing socialization of the production of capital. A practical response would be to socialize the property rights over the large income streams capital is now generating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"3ada225c4050455e97a684a0fbadac3d\">In short, forget about taxing either Nexus or Luke. Instead, place a portion of Luke\u2019s equity in the farm in a public trust, which then provides a universal payment to everyone. In addition, we must legislate to improve the wages and conditions of every human still in employment, while our taxes provide Ken unemployment benefits, a guaranteed paid job in his community, or retraining.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"hasCaption\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Note: All opinions expressed are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of acTVsm Munich.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate to support independent, non-profit and critical journalism!<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here or on the picture below.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1283 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-700x233.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E.jpg 1418w\" alt=\"Banner Spende Webseite_E\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>About Yanis Varoufakis:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1516 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115-300x169.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/GreeceDebtCrisis042115.jpg 1300w\" alt=\"Yanis Varoufakis\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><b>Yanis Varoufakis<\/b> is\u00a0 professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) and former finance minister of Greece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-line-id=\"033b0d53f15a4a4cbd297a28f27dbb2b\">As finance minister of Greece he resigned shortly after he found out that his prime minister decided to cave into the austerity program of the Troika that the majority of Greece rejected in the historic OXI vote.<\/p>\n<p>To view our entire video playlist with Yanis Varoufakis and DiEM25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhxITUni9OWfCYbsCcTSm98MhcLqR0wcn&amp;feature=iv&amp;src_vid=7V5u5xck3v8&amp;annotation_id=annotation_1429857235\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tax on Robots? 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