Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read
David, as you say, the driving force is no other than “profit maximizing decisions by the company owners”. The solution to the potential problems that you describe is not hugging the truck driver as he sees his job gone, but reforming the tax system. On one hand the political establishment is subsidising and promoting creative entrepreneurs that are backed by the world billionaires dressed as “venture capitalists”, while on the the other hand, the same political establishment is competing in setting up, protecting and creating new tax havens and passing laws that prevent them from paying taxes. Without a fair taxation system, the future won’t be fair, neither for the truck driver nor for the rest of us.
