New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to protect blue-collar jobs by issuing a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.
My plan wouldn’t accept a post-work future. Instead, it would hasten a work-filled future—one where we use technological advancement to bridge the gap between our current workforce at risk of being made redundant by automation and the resilient union workforce we need. A “robot tax” will help us create stable, good-paying middle-class jobs for generations to come.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-american-workers-need-to-be-protected-from-automation/