Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future
From the New World
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The Tax Career Agent
The tax career agent is the idea that your government, because they take 20% of your income on average, is a career agent for you. The simple proposal is to fire them and transfer the role to somebody else. And it's free. Nobody loses anything in this transfer. We can even give you complete veto power. This thing doesn't even happen unless you approve it. So basically, everybody could have a free career agent cost them nothing costs nobody anything. It's just free. They would, on average, increase your the value of your job by 1% to you. And that's worth $15 trillion worldwide.
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