Rumours of the robo-job takeover have been circling for years.
A recent report suggested that almost 250,000 public sector jobs could be lost to robots in cost-cutting exercises over the next 10-15 years.
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has a novel solution to the issues of job losses due to automation. In an interview with Quartz , the tech mogul said robots who replace human workers should incur taxes equal to that of worker’s income taxes.The idea is that governments should tax companies’ use of robots as a way to fund other types of employment. Gates told Quartz : “Right […]
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