James Thomson

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2,279 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Jun

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · Feeding the Machine · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Well, so usage, I don't know.

I mean – This is the complication.

I mean, I think we're sort of rebuilding the – AI sort of asks you to rebuild the entire economy in a way that –

You know, we can't even change the capital gains tax rules without starting.

But I'm just thinking this through as we speak, Alan.

Say you whack a GST on AI tokens, right?

Yeah.

That means you're paying the GST.

Sure.

Is that designed to discourage you from using AI tokens or is an AI tax more designed to redistribute the wealth created by AI?

No, but do you know what I mean?

If what we're concerned about is taxing AI in some way to rebalance the economy,

then taxing the users of AI, is that what we want to do or do we want to tax the people making profits from AI?

Ray has a question on the SpaceX IPO, which I think it's worth indulging, Alan, because they make the point that one of the things they say is, I guess super funds in Australia will be all in.

That is a really interesting question.

I think this is a challenging one for super funds because there's a lot of risk and a lot of potential in a business like SpaceX.

It's going to be a big part of the market.

I think this is going to be really tricky for Australian super funds.

Their investment styles have become a lot more passive.

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