Taxation could be used to ease the effects of the job displacement caused by automation, Gates argues
Bill Gates has supported the taxation of robots to “slow” the speed of innovation and allow society time to adapt to the job losses they are expected to cause.
Gates, the world’s richest man and the co-founder of Microsoft, whose technologies have helped make some pre-PC employment categories obsolete, said taxes relating to automation could help fund tasks for which humans are uniquely suited, such as education and care for the elderly. bill gates Microsoft Robot tax He spoke to online magazine Quartz following […]
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