khafra comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 19 August 2013 11:09:30AM 4 points [-]

He's talking about effective marginal tax rates--the USA has a lot of welfare programs with hard cutoffs, which effectively mean more gross income can lower your net income until around $20k or so.