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What Happens When Governments Can't Tax Productivity Anymore?

https://m4ttl4w.substack.com/p/the-second-bounce-of-the-ball-part
2•mattyboomboom•13h ago

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mattyboomboom•13h ago
When a company replaces a $100,000 employee with $10,000 of compute and electricity, the tax base evaporates while government obligations remain.

Then what?

Countries face a choice between raising taxes on remaining workers, innovating on how money is raised, or accepting they can’t fund existing services.

Disruption in the order encourages competition between countries for who will will enable innovation, and stimulate growth, and who manages decline

Plus about another 1500 words of chat about this theme

techblueberry•13h ago
If history is any indicator, Those workers will be replaced by higher productivity workers who increase the tax base.
mattyboomboom•10h ago
the transition in the industrial revolution took about 80 years (3 generations give or take) and there was terrible destitution during that time

you might be interested in this one: https://m4ttl4w.substack.com/p/ai-the-pendulum-swings-capita...

AI Is Intensifying a 'Collapse' of Trust Online, Experts Say

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/experts-warn-collapse-trust-online-ai-deepfakes-venezuela-...
1•m463•58s ago•0 comments

Public Money Public Code

https://publiccode.eu/en/
1•pabs3•1m ago•0 comments

Autofocusing Smart Glasses with Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

https://hothardware.com/news/autofocusing-smart-glasses-with-eye-tracking-tech-could-make-bifocal...
1•WaitWaitWha•3m ago•0 comments

2. Title: Show HN: First Modern Nvidia Driver for IBM POWER8 via OCuLink

https://github.com/Scottcjn/nvidia-power8-patches
1•AutoJanitor•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Base44-style builder for data workflows (DuckDB-powered)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try
1•vibecoding101•10m ago•0 comments

An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice

https://singularityhub.com/2026/01/08/aging-weakens-immunity-an-mrna-shot-turned-back-the-clock-i...
1•WaitWaitWha•10m ago•0 comments

It's Your Job to Keep Your Secrets

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/its-your-job-to-keep-your-secrets
1•paulpauper•12m ago•0 comments

The Permanent Emergency

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-permanent-emergency
1•paulpauper•13m ago•0 comments

How I Learned to Love Reading

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-i-learned-to-love-reading
1•paulpauper•14m ago•0 comments

MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951)

https://dome.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.3/40245/MC665_r12_R-209.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
1•stmw•19m ago•1 comments

Freelance Contract Management Software

https://www.plotform.cc/
1•abdullah9•20m ago•0 comments

Gut bacteria may drive bipolar depression by influencing brain connectivity

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-gut-bacteria-play-role-bipolar.html
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-ai-mathematicians-find-hidden-glitches-in-fluid-equations-20...
1•pseudolus•22m ago•0 comments

Bytelocker Emacs Port

https://github.com/abaj8494/bytelocker.el
1•br1ttle•23m ago•1 comments

X Sues Music Publishers over "Weaponized" DMCA Takedown Conspiracy

https://torrentfreak.com/x-sues-music-publishers-over-weaponized-dmca-takedown-conspiracy/
3•gslin•23m ago•0 comments

The ethics of wanting someone who is taken

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2V2YQc0RssBA_4j2Gh0Pb4AT8cdHtPP3sOatGg9Ide0uvjg/viewfo...
1•tavro•28m ago•1 comments

Maine's black market for baby eels is spawning a crime-thriller subgenre

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/09/09/maines-black-market-for-baby-eels-is-spawning-a-crime-thri...
2•noleary•29m ago•1 comments

USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis

https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/enough-is-enough-usda-suspends-federal-financial-awards-to...
4•blurbleblurble•35m ago•3 comments

Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated

https://postgresgui.com
1•fikrigha•40m ago•0 comments

Scaffold – Add AI features to any site, no API keys or back end

https://www.scaffoldtool.com/
1•niqhtcrawler•42m ago•1 comments

Rust Is Perfectly Imperfect

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2026-01-08-imperfect-rust.html
1•orlp•53m ago•1 comments

AI Won't Kill Open Source – It Will Amplify It

https://petabridge.com/blog/ai-wont-kill-open-source/
1•Aaronontheweb•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Build your own Atlas/Comet AI-browser (open source)

https://github.com/tomkit/chromium-my-assistant
1•tomkit•57m ago•0 comments

Americans Do Not Need a Left or Right Revolution

https://www.grumpychineseguy.com/p/americans-do-not-need-a-left-or-right
3•metadope•1h ago•3 comments

AI as the Engine of Application State

https://jonwoodlief.com/ai-app-state.html
1•jonfw•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Constitutional Framework for Ethical AI Decision-Making

https://github.com/SebastFock/Sovereign-Engagement
1•StrategicEthos•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ollie – Glass-box AI code editor with local models and no subscription

https://costa-and-associates.com/ollie
1•lcmeyer•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: 0list – Self-hosted waitlist on Cloudflare Workers (free tier)

https://0list.d4mr.com/
2•d4mr•1h ago•0 comments

The Code-Only Agent

https://rijnard.com/blog/the-code-only-agent
1•emersonmacro•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have CES keynotes been especially bad this year?

1•Fr0styMatt88•1h ago•0 comments