One of the things with government funded education, is taxpayers pay, and they are the workers, right? So, as businesses cut their needs for employees, making more money for less cost, the funding decreases across all sectors anyway, eventually leaving no resources for education systems anyway. This way, they could be partially funded by the businesses themselves, as businesses are incentivized to use them as a service.
At the moment, they are getting educated people for "free", whilst using those same educated people to reduce their need for workers. One of the things that people don't consider in this, is that companies pay far less tax than people, because they are the places that take the people into work to generate more tax. They are not generating more tax now, especially with global accounting practices and cutting staff needs, so they either have to support directly or, get taxed far more. They are entities with all the rights as people, so they should be taxed as humans too - even if their entire staff is robotic and AI.
Never thought of that angle.
Corporations paying less tax will always be a thing as these tax breaks are what is offered to them to select a country in which to do business. Easy mode for the government because they are not spending much to attract them (just giving them the friends and family discount) and employing people so the government doesn't have to support them.
Damn humans! (Love the conversations and learning on Hive when I follow the right people.)
It is funny, isn't it? most of the countries attract them, then the corporations (especially the digital behemoths) extract value, then pay almost no tax in the country they extract it from.
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