It wasn’t so long ago — like, last year — when you had one of America’s greatest tech entrepreneurs musing about the need to tax automatons and algorithms to slow down tech progress. Meanwhile, some wonks were busy cooking up plans to deal with mass technological unemployment by giving everyone a universal basic income. Indeed, a Pew Research survey in October found that 72% of Americans were “worried” about smart machines and software taking their jobs. Less than one year ago, Bill Gates suggested the US may need to tax automatons and algorithms to slow down tech progress and […]
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