God I cannot wait for this AI bubble to pop.

Automating data entry would be great. I myself would love that in my scientific job. It just seems like none of the agentic models are anywhere close to what's needed to deliver that.

In the US we do that to some extent but not for the wealthy. Somehow we ended up with upper middle class paying the highest rate, then tax rates dropping as you get wealthy. It’s fair that I pay a higher rate than someone with less income, but very much not fair that I pay a higher tax rate than wealthy people

I can definitely see the fear of letting ai do something like that. Someone will always try to trick it. That’s why we can’t have good things.

However, like you said, they didn’t think to make that an option in the voice menu. If it were an AI, you could drop the process into the knowledge base and have it available much more easily than reprogramming the voice menu

Yeah, something like Peppol (digital invoice exchange system) wil also be easier in the bookkeeping/accounting fild.

Is that actual rates? Or is the looking at different kind of taxes? I was talking about income tax + social security if you get it.

People with massive company structures can always pay less tax. Or at least less at this point in time. The only way to change rhis if every country works together to fix it

Effective rates

1. The ladder of progressive rates ends too early, so actual income tax rates do not go up after something like half a million income. That’s a lot for most of us but does not begin to cover the wealthy
2. Many tax cuts over the last few decades were specific to other types of income, generally available to the wealthy

For example if you were like Elon Musk, the richest person in the world (sometimes) who gets little to no salary and is paid mainly with stock options, you’d pay at most 37% on your salary, same as any basic millionaire but the bulk of your income would count as long term capital gains and taxed at 20%, lowering your effective rate. Even better, you could take loans against your stock and never “realize” the gains so never pay taxes on it.

There are many other tricks you can pull to count your income as other that income and taxed at a lower rate. Last time we had that debate, Warren Buffet, another of the richest men in the world wrote an opinion piece in support of changes that he could take advantage such that he paid a lower effective tax rate than his secretary. Nice try but quickly disappeared under a flood of propaganda from other rich people

Technically anyone could be paid in stock like Elon musk, and live off loans on stock like Elon musk, and pay a much lower effective tax rate like Elon musk, but it’s a practical Impossibility for most of us

Technically we could all form a trust like the Kennedys and many other wealthy families, hold all of our assets. The trust has several ways to avoid taxes and i believe is taxed at the corporate rate, which is also now lower than personal tax rates. And the trust can cover all of our expenses and write them off from its income, while we owe little to no income tax. Realistically most of us couldn’t afford the lawyers to make that happen much less the prerequisites to dodge the taxes

I feel you, and AI tech has been completely squandered.

My phone knows everything about me and has for the last decade.

It is not able to do a single useful thing for me.

It knows where I go, when I go, what my schedule is, what I buy, what I don't.

It has never been able to suggest anything useful, advise me of a sale on products that I buy, let me know about a vendor in my area that can deliver for cheaper.

It's not able to notice that I'm trying to format text on my screen and I'm entering the same bullet at the front of things. It would never take over and say oh let me copy paste this very obvious task you're doing that even a child could deduce from your primitive actions.

"Transfer all of my image files off of my phone into a folder on my computer, then reorganize all of the photos on my phone into sensible groupings instead of random folders all over the place that have piled up over the years". Not going to happen, because that's useful.

"Hey phone, I'm going out. Take a look at my shopping lists and let me know what stores have what on sale so I can save a few bucks. You know all the stores I go to, because you're watching my every move." Not going to happen, because that's useful.

When AI is implemented into businesses, it's qualified to direct you to an FAQ. Any opportunity to win new customers with high level service is squandered.

I do not hate ai, I detest the fact that the possibilities to improve the lives of people have been completely ignored, while it is primarily implemented as a cost saving measure. Completely short-sighted and fucking useless.

Part of the issue will be convincing the decision makers. They may not want to document a process for deviation x because it's easier to pretend it doesn't occur, and you don't need to record specific metrics if it's a generic "manual fix by CS" issue. It's easier for them to give a support team employee (or manager) override on everything just in case.

To your point, in theory it should be much easier to dump that ad-hoc solution into an AI knowledge base than draw up requirements and budget to fix the application. Maybe the real thing I should be concerned with is suits using that as a solution rather than ever fixing their broken products.

Wait until AI reduces it to just owners.