Part 8/10:
- Moral questions: Ethical debates around rewarding disengagement from work and whether societal values should prioritize work ethic.
He urges careful, incremental experimentation—“scaling over time”—and emphasizes that the cost of inaction could be far greater than the potential pitfalls of a well-designed robot tax.
Addressing Morality and Human Value
A lingering question is whether it’s immoral to support a system that rewards automation over human labor. Critics argue that work gives humans purpose and identity, rooted in cultural and historical values like the Protestant work ethic.