Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S is advocating for a new economic framework in which digital labor is taxed, arguing that the current system unfairly burdens human workers while automating away their jobs. Speaking with TIME as part of its
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zwRxMZpP.m3u8Cognizant CEO Proposes Tax on Digital Labor to Level Playing Field
Interesting perspective, but isn’t this just Cognizant trying to protect its massive workforce from disruption?
Wait, how exactly do you tax ‘digital labor’? Is there an API for that? This sounds complicated in practice.
Finally, a CEO with the guts to call out the imbalance. Human workers shouldn’t subsidize automation.