Robot Tax Party

The Machine Dividend: Generational Royalties Before It's Too Late

A single-issue political party for the Western World : securing your share of the automation economy before the window closes.

One Job Lost Every 16 Seconds

2M

Jobs Displaced

Annually by automation in 2024 alone

542K

Robots Installed

In 2024 : double the number from a decade ago

0.42%

Wage Cut

Per additional robot per 1,000 workers (MIT, 2020)

MIT economists Acemoglu and Restrepo confirmed using commuting zone data: each additional robot per 1,000 workers reduces employment by 0.2 percentage points and wages by 0.42%. Annual robot installations have topped 500,000 units for four consecutive years. This is not a future threat — it is happening right now, at scale.

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The Robot Tax Party: Reclaiming Our Social Heritage

A Manual for establishing a local “Tax Robots Party”

The Single Issue That Matters Now

Who Built the Foundation?

Human hands constructed every road, power grid, internet backbone, and education system that automation now exploits for profit. Generations of workers and taxpayers created the preconditions for the machine economy.

Who Is Harvesting the Returns?

Robots and the corporations that own them are capturing the productivity gains ; while workers lose ground in wages, hours, and job security.

Our Single Demand

We are not anti-technology. We are pro-ownership. Generational Royalties ⚠️ a Machine Dividend ⚠️ must be established before automation fully displaces the human workforce.

The window to act is open now. Once displacement reaches its endpoint, the leverage to demand a share disappears. This is the defining policy question of our generation, and it must be answered at the ballot box.

Tech Monopolies Are Draining Public Resources

Hidden Subsidies in Your Power Bill

Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are securing electricity for energy-intensive data centers ⚠️ and funding their discounts by socialising costs through utility rates paid by the public. Harvard's Environmental Law Institute confirmed: trillion-dollar companies are profiting while consumers absorb the cost.

Maximum Resources, Minimum Jobs

Data centers consume enormous quantities of energy, land, and public infrastructure : yet produce almost no local employment. Communities bear the burden; shareholders capture the value.

A Market Rigged Against the Public

Regional utilities are pitted against each other in a race to attract Big Tech : increasing utility profits while raising costs for ordinary Americans and European consumers. The public is financing private wealth accumulation without receiving any return.

We Built It. We Deserve Dividends.

Taxpayers funded the research universities, DARPA projects, public internet infrastructure, and vast datasets that trained today's AI and robotics systems. Big Tech uses our collective contributions : then pays us nothing in return.

As economist Yanis Varoufakis argues: taxpayers and users help build up the capital stock of the robots' owners but receive no dividends for their unpaid, capital-enhancing contributions.

The Alaska Proof of Concept

Alaska's Permanent Fund demonstrates the model works. The state owns its oil, invests royalties in a sovereign fund, and every Alaskan citizen received $1,702 in 2024 : not earned through labour, but received as co-owners of a public resource. The technology that automation depends on belongs to us in exactly the same way. The dividend is our rightful share.

Uniting the Unions

A New Solidarity: Empowering Workers in the Age of Automation

As automation reshapes industries, traditional labor structures face unprecedented challenges. This essential article explores why the solution for worker empowerment and economic justice must come from fresh perspectives, fostering a new era of solidarity that transcends conventional bargaining techniques.

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The Machine Dividend: How It Works

1

Equity Issuance

Big Tech companies are required to issue new equity shares — not taxed on profits, but asked to share ownership.

2

Public Trust

New equity is deposited into a democratically governed public trust : a sovereign wealth fund for the automation age.

3

Equal Dividend

Every citizen receives equal dividends from automation profits : a return on collective investment, not a welfare payment.

This is not a tax. It is not UBI. It is a return on collective investment. Recent modelling shows that when AI productivity reaches just 5–7 times today's automation levels, the dividend could fund 11% of GDP : a transformative share of national wealth flowing back to the people who made it possible.

This Is About Reclaiming Our Heritage

Generational Labour

Centuries of workers built the knowledge base, trade routes, and industrial systems that automation now leverages.

Public Infrastructure

Roads, electricity grids, universities, and the internet : all publicly funded, all now powering private machine wealth.

Collective Data

Our conversations, searches, and creative work trained the AI systems that are now displacing us. We are the unpaid trainers.

Long-term capital leverage is flowing exclusively to tech monopolies while communities lose their economic foundations. The Machine Dividend does not punish innovation : it recognises our collective contribution and ensures that the prosperity automation creates is genuinely shared across society.

Join the Movement: Demand Your Dividend

1

Support Candidates Who Pledge the Machine Dividend

One pledge. One test. Any candidate : regardless of party : who commits to legislating the Machine Dividend earns your vote. Any candidate who refuses does not.

2

Make This the Single Issue That Defines the Next Election

Media, journalists, and commentators: automation displacement is already the story of this decade. The Machine Dividend is the policy response. Cover it accordingly.

3

The Wealth Is Being Created Right Now — Fight for Your Share

The technology exists. The productivity gains are real. The only question is whether the returns flow to a handful of shareholders : or to all of us. The window to decide is open. It will not stay open forever.

open.substack.com

The Machine Dividend: Reclaiming our Social Heritage

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Uniting the Unions

The labor movement has always been strongest when it speaks with one voice. By uniting unions worldwide, we can claim a seat at the very table where decisions are made : including the boardrooms of the institutions that shape our economy.

A Seat at the Table

BlackRock sits on nearly every major corporate board in the world. Collective union power can get us into that room ; as partners, not bystanders.

$24 Billion in Collective Dues

Combined union dues worldwide exceed $24 billion. That is the capital we need to reach scale and challenge the global oligarchy on its own terms.

A Global Movement

When workers everywhere unite, they become an economic force powerful enough to reshape the rules ; and reclaim a fair share of the future we are all building.

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