Why Future Robots In The Workplace Might Pay Taxes

This question originally appeared on Quora. Capitalism works reasonably well as an economic system - provided that human beings are required to do effectively all of the labor. It worked far better than previous systems (slavery most notably). But capitalism has a long list of grievances, not the least of which is that human labor has slowly become devalued over time. The reason for that was simple: the assembly line, and the company that made its profits off of it, needed those workers.