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Why wouldn't some of the smarter members of the fine, upstanding population of this fictional world have their assets held in the trust of automated holding companies while their flesh-and-blood person declares bankruptcy?


That would make a nice backstory in AI dominated dystopia all by itself. Humans wanted to cheat the taxman that bad, they put all the wealth behind the DAO and then the DAO woke up.


The ai was programmed to avoid tax at all cost, it realised the easiest way to do that is to eliminate humans.

This triggers a war with the AIRS that is programmed to maximise tax income, and must keep humans alive so they can be taxed.




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