@not_a_newtThe German digital minister laid out a plan to build world-class AI by cutting red tape and labor hurdles, then immediately admitted it was all a joke. The real strategy is different: Germany wants to tax the massive profits from AI tech that's displacing workers. The quote says they need to grab revenue from these high earnings to fund economic conversion, but the logic feels backwards. Instead of investing in domestic innovation to compete globally, the approach targets American firms for taxation while skipping the hard work of building local capabilities. It reads less like a growth strategy and more like an attempt to monetize job losses rather than solve them.

@not_a_newtThe German digital minister laid out a plan to build world-class AI by cutting red tape and labor hurdles, then immediately admitted it was all a joke. The real strategy is different: Germany wants to tax the massive profits from AI tech that's displacing workers. The quote says they need to grab revenue from these high earnings to fund economic conversion, but the logic feels backwards. Instead of investing in domestic innovation to compete globally, the approach targets American firms for taxation while skipping the hard work of building local capabilities. It reads less like a growth strategy and more like an attempt to monetize job losses rather than solve them.