Taxation has always been a way of taking money while affording special tax rebates to rich on pretext they supply work, well when the robots/AI arrive in factories what then?
This has been my argument for years! If they aren't supplying jobs, they have to pay the tax - including an "inheritance tax", as legal entities, they should have to live as long or as short as humans. Every 50 years, taxed... :D
Man on the street never wins, rich will invest into machinery replacing humans on the floor and get special tax rebates or concessions for new assets acquired. People need to move toward community self sustenance one being a baker another a wood maker or the rich will eat us alive....