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In 1940 Democratic senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney proposed a tax on robots. Unemployment was still high post Great Depression (14%+) which many partly blamed on automation. Robots weren’t taxed, and by 1943 there were labor shortages. https://t.co/V8HfNx6BCh
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