The leader of the EU initiative tasked with preparing Europe’s workforce for changing jobs doesn’t think that taxing robots is a good idea.
As machines take on more human work, at least some human workers will lose their jobs. Bill Gates has proposed a simple solution for this conundrum: Governments should tax robot workers’ productivity in the same way they tax human workers.
In a February interview with Quartz , Gates argued that governments could use the revenue to fund social safety-net programs and support jobs that still require human empathy and understanding.Andrus Ansip, the EU Commissioner in charge of the […]
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