Spread evenly accross every person who is striving and failing to generate an income as a cultural creative, the tax on AI slop would likely not have any effect on the viability of that career pursuit. For the distribution to have meaningful effects in the lives of the recipients, some selection criteria would need to applied. The question then becomes, who controls that selection process? Whose ideology is enshrined as being worthy of taxpayer support? What opinions, even secretly held or unconsciously held but ferreted out by witch hunters, would be grounds for revoking the cultural creative stipend?
