Shutterstock So, the Green Party has just proposed a “robot tax” as part of its platform ahead of the federal election.
This is an idea that’s gained some fanfare over the last couple of years, as fears of automation taking over swaths of jobs play out in the news.
Most notably, in early 2017, Bill Gates said governments should tax companies’ use of robots as a way to slow the spread of automation and fund other types of employment, according to an interview with Quartz, a business news organization.“Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in […]
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