Bill Gates says that job-stealing robots should pay taxes

Bill Gates says that job-stealing robots should pay taxes

There’s no doubt that as robots and automated machines become increasingly advanced, more humans will find themselves out of a job – and fewer people in work means a fall in the amount of tax being paid. Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates believes the best solution to the problem is to make the machines pay their share.

“Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, Social Security tax, all those things,” said Gates in an interview with Quartz . “If a robot comes in […]

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