Bill Gates wants to tax robots.
Now, Gates is a fantastically successful businessman. The Microsoft co-founder is worth $85 billion, after all. He’s also a major philanthropist with a keen interest in public policy. But he should be careful about his musings to the media. The world’s richest person can’t just leave live ammo like "Maybe there should be a robot tax" lying around for some opportunistic politician to pick up. Certainly not with Donald Trump as president.
Look, all that has to happen is for America’s cable-news-addict-in-chief to hear someone on Fox & Friends talking about how "Bill Gates said […]
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