Comment by epolanski

Interesting how this argument is only popping now that technology is threatening white collar workers.

Automation has been shoving blue collars out of the job market for a century.

A single farmer can do with his machinery today what took a dozen of people just 50 years ago.

Manufacturing has been super automated long ago.

Even in commerce automated checkout has been replacing workers for more than a decade.

In any case such a tax is not only pointless but actively dangerous, as all it achieves is making countries without such a tax more competitive.