Automation dividends: the tax debate that will define the 2030s

When a company replaces ten workers with software, payroll tax revenue disappears but the productivity remains. Every serious UBI funding model eventually lands on the same question: how do you route a slice of automation gains back to the people the automation displaced? Robot taxes, data dividends, sovereign equity stakes — each has real problems. Which failure mode worries you least? Because that is probably the policy we end up with.