Father Time is catching up to Mr Bill.
Posted on 02/17/2017 11:49:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and world’s richest man, said in an interview Friday that robots that steal human jobs should pay their fair share of taxes.
“Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, Social Security tax, all those things,” he said. “If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.”
Gates made the remark during an interview with Quartz. He said robot taxes could help fund projects like caring for the elderly or working with children in school. Quartz reported that European Union lawmakers considered a proposal to tax robots in the past. The law was rejected.
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Definitely not the world’s most intelligent man.
Gates should tax himself into bankruptcy.
Wow, that may be the only dumb idea that the EU ever rejected.
Maybe Gates can pay back taxes on all the jobs that computers replaced. What a goofball.
Using similar logic, because one man with a typewriter is three times more productive than one with a pencil, he should be taxed three times as much... for the sake of the elderly, schoolchildren, etc.
There should be no taxation without representation, so guess who will be appointed to represent the robots?
They should tax Moonbats. Gates would owe his fortune.
He is right.
When 50-75% of current jobs are replaced by robots, we will have no choice but to tax robots as without that tax revenue, we will not be able to fund our drone, robot and droid military.
For that matter, when most jobs are replaced by robots, humans who would otherwise be working, had they not been repealed by robots, are not going to have the cash to buy products and services produced by robots.
“There should be no taxation without representation, so guess who will be appointed to represent the robots?”
Robots will elect robots to Congress.
Robots don’t get paid.
Whether or not it controls a robot will be of no consequence.
That’s right robots don’t get paid and they don’t need health insurance.
However, when most jobs are done by robots, federal revenue from income taxes will greatly diminish and we will not be able to build and maintain a military to defend the country.
The options would be to tax human workers more or to tax productivity of robots.
Father Time is catching up to Mr Bill.
I wonder if he believes that BOTS on the internet should be taxed.
I’ll take simplistic answers the public will swallow for $500, Alex.
Go away Bill Gates, you’ve always been a fool but a clever thief.
As usual, every dumbass on the thread misses the overall point. The point is ....how is civilization going to cope with machinery doing the labor that the overwhelming majority of humans used to do. How is that lower half of the bell curve expected to survive?
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