“THEY took our jobs!” say the rednecks in South Park whenever someone “steals” their jobs.
But rather than losing your jobs to immigrants, as the rednecks in South Park belief, the more plausible and larger threat to your employment comes from robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
This trend has not the smallest minds worried. Bill Gates proposes to tax robots which take over people’s jobs to fund government spending.This sounds like a bad idea: taxing investments which improve productivity ultimately benefits society as a whole.Yet the sentiment is understandable, especially as the gains of automation are unlikely to be spread fairly […]
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