Clojurians Log v2
ai
Sovereign Sponsorship Any company using an agentic AI that makes more than 100K in revenue with a given agent needs to pay, in tax, 1% of their revenue to 1 citizen, as a form of sovereign wealth tax. If you can't find a citizen without a sponsorship, citizens can take on more sponsorships so you can find an existing one. But you lose some in taxes for their additional sponsorships, so companies are incentivized to find citizens that do not yet have a sovereign sponsorship. For this to work, you'd have to tariff any countries that let companies get away with agentic labor that doesn't divy out fairly to their citizens too, otherwise that's a leak in the system. So, AI economy automation can only scale as fast as countries produce more people that can sponsor more agents.
Not sure if this is actually a good idea. Just spitballing
what about all the non-citizens involved in the https://www.cartografiasdainternet.org/en?
Yeah, I think the best you can do, unless there's atrocities or whatever, is impose economic pressure from the outside, for a nation to reciprocate in the fair treatment of its people.
So maybe tariffs
sounds like re-inventing taxes
Well, one problem is, how do you quantify an "agent"? Or some degree of automation?
If you can automate an entire business unit, that seems quantifiable... vs some auto complete
It would essentially become not about automation though, but about revenue per employee, wrt how much a given employee is leveraged, and not allowing obscene leverage-per-employee and forcing some "sovereign sponsership" equity be offloaded for some of that agentic automation to citizen sovereign sponsors.
And yeah, that's moving the pieces around the board wrt to taxes. But it's about structuring the correct incentives. Giving citizens ownership stake directly in the economy gives them more wealth that grows with the economy and a stake in that growth. Taxes that require a middle man dole you out your pittance, regardless of economic growth, doesn't give people the same feeling of having personal stakes in the game.