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Tesla’s Optimus faces stiff humanoid competition at Beijing robot conference (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Running cost of a robot is far lower than the running cost of a human.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tax the shit out of them!

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a terrible idea.

Are we meant to be taxing excel and automated telephone exchanges, what about the printing press or solar panels?

All those have lower running costs than industries they replaced that had more workers.