In an excerpt from his book Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI, Alessandro Crimi argues that a tax on automation is a more effective tool for wealth redistribution than retraining workers. The excerpt, published by Rest of World, frames the robot tax as a direct way to capture the economic gains of automation.
Crimi's position challenges the common policy instinct to respond to job displacement with retraining programs. According to the excerpt, those programs are less effective than a tax on automation when the goal is redistributing wealth. The book's subtitle places this idea within a wider vision for sustainable technology beyond AI.
Because this is a single source, the article reflects Crimi's argument without independent comparison or counterpoints.