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Governments should tax companies that use robots, using those funds for worker training programs in other employment areas, said Bill Gates, in a recent interview with Quartz .
The Microsoft co-founder says a robot tax could help manage the job displacement expected from automation. "You cross the threshold of job replacement of certain activities all sort of at once," Gates said. The idea is that those individuals displaced from work by automation could be redirected or retrained to do jobs that are difficult to automate because they require a human touch, like providing care to the elderly […]
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