Seems like the cure is worse than the disease. In addition to incentivizing investments that create more jobs at the expense of those that create less (using robots, software, and all that), the government must now evaluate and track how many jobs all investment vehicles create.
Also, queue massive new industry that specializes in creative job accounting/number fixing in 3, 2, 1...
>> Seems like the cure is worse than the disease. In addition to incentivizing investments that create more jobs at the expense of those that create less
Here's the thing. There is still more money to be made by hiring fewer employees (because employee payroll cost > tax break).
Will it slow some things down? Sure. But it will also disincentivize the current slaughtering of humans.
>> Also, queue massive new industry that specializes in creative job accounting/number fixing in 3, 2, 1...
Also, queue massive new industry that specializes in creative job accounting/number fixing in 3, 2, 1...