Damn good idea Bob! Yes, people can get paid for what their robot does!
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote: > A simple law will fix the problem of robots replacing people. The main > features of such a law follow: > > Only real persons shall be allowed to own a robot free of tax. > Additional robots can be owned by any given biological person, but at an > increasing tax as deemed necessary to keep their numbers down will be > levied. Corporations or non-biological persons will not be allowed to own > robots, but can rent robots from owners. Owners will have to obtain > licenses to rent their robots. However, only a fixed rental charge will be > allowed as provided by the law. > > (Robots will not be allowed to vote.) > > Any robot produced by a licensed entity in contract with > the government shall become owned by the government upon being manufactured > and checked out and can only be sold to biological persons. > > Patents for such robots shall be government owned, and patented robot > production shall be allowed by any person under license, be they artificial > or natural, providing that person is chartered in the United States and/or > is a natural citizen of the United States. > > Production of robots with various qualifications will be allowed by > licensed entities--persons--much like nuclear plants for electricity are > licensed for production by certain qualified entities and electric energy > is sold under regulated cost controls. > > Natural persons will be allowed to work without restriction, even if > they do not own a robot or rent it out separately to supplement their > income. > > Robot rent control shall be a local matter set by the local government > under state law. > > Imported robots become the property of the government upon crossing > the boarder (like controlled substances) and can only be sold by the > government as determined necessary and at reasonable costs based on the > market in this country. (This could act to improve government income.) > > Only the government will be able to export robots. > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:04 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:OT: what if everybody got free cash? > > > When Robots Replace Human Workers (Harvard Business Review) > > Progress in information storage and processing have made possible the > creation intelligent machines at amazing speed that will soon dominate the > world economy and devalue human labor:”This is why we will soon be looking > at hordes of citizens of zero economic value.” > > There is a term now used called “the Second Economy” which describes > that portion of the economy where machines/computers interact only with > other machines/computers. Economist Brian Arthur of the Santa Fe Institute > predicts that by 2025, the Second Economy may be as large worldwide as the > First Economy, and 100 million workers will be displaced. > > Today robots are only capable of doing the work the work of a person > of average intelligence, but if the rate of increase of robot IQ is only > 1.5 per cent per year, by 2025, robots could have IQ levels higher than 90 > per cent of the US population. > > Already robots have been shown to be superior in performance than > anesthesiologists and radiologists, two jobs in the medical field that have > required highly trained (and expensive) workers. > > ref > http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/10/mfmps-project-dog-bone-thread-update-1-first-test-on-dummy-core/ > >
