Asscher labor market pressure rise by robots – Elsevier

Asscher labor market pressure rise by robots – Elsevier

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                     Sep 29, 2014

                 Technological developments in the future more and more work done by robots that is currently being done by people. Therefore the government must come up with “new tools” to overcome this process.
             

“The robots are coming now really, “warns Minister of Social Affairs, Lodewijk Asscher (PvdA), Monday at a conference in The Hague.

System overhauled

The government must therefore ensure that there is an income remains, for the people who lose their jobs to a robot finds Asscher. The current labor and social security system can not handle. There will be ‘new tools’ to come, says the minister. “That’s not our current system.”

What exactly these instruments entail is not clear. However, the minister that the tax system must be reformed.

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Taxation

For example, what happens to the income tax as far fewer people work? ” In addition, workers will need to be helped. Through education, training and lowering taxes on labor to another job

That there will be lost jobs, according Asscher anyway inevitable. “Robots are rapidly becoming more accessible , more reliable and cheaper They are cheap, fast, never sick, and work 24 hours a day

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