Recent research suggests the major tech platforms have destroyed more value (especially jobs) than they’ve created
Canada ’s new digital services tax is making waves, albeit for the wrong reasons – notably worries that the U.S. will retaliate with protectionist measures. It’s never a good idea to start a trade war with our southern neighbour, given our asymmetric dependence on them. There’s also reasonable concern over whether it was politically the most sensible thing for Canada to skip ahead of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development process that’s trying to create a common, global tax.
That rule of thumb arose from the history of the Industrial Revolution. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the “Satanic mills” so decried by English Romantics ultimately raised incomes, and with that, human well-being. For instance, the automobile, and Henry Ford’s equally pioneering invention of the assembly line, killed off a whole industrial ecosystem in horse-drawn transportation, from grooms to street-sweepers.
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