How ‘bout we tax Microsoft for using so many H1B workers and taking American jobs?
Every robot is a mechanical operation of a computer. Let Microsoft volunteer 10% of its profit.
A little money where his mouth is...
Tax the hardware, but not the software?
Typical feudalism: all the peasants get the same- as little as possible.
STHU and go away already Bill!
somehow i wouldn;t trvst Gill Bates, either!
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Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
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If you tax these robots, expect them to start demanding their Constitutional Rights.
Then it is all downhill.
Hopefully they will not convert to Islam (They WILL be recruited, I am sure.)
Big companies would shoulder this burden easier than small companies so his words do not surprise me.
Does this mean all computers that are doing bookkeeping should be taxed for eliminating those jobs?
Tax electric tools that save us from doing things manually?
Bill Gates’ contribution to the world — the practical Desktop Computer — put a lot of secretaries out of work as businesses found it more cost-effective to put a computer on every worker’s desk and ultimately network them. Businesses made that decision, and it made Bill Gates a wealthy man. Now Bill presumes to tell “Business” that it can’t make self-interested decisions, that government with it’s arbitrary tax code should force outcomes. He then goes on to cite the usual list of do-gooder dreams like “smaller class sizes” and “reaching out to the elderly” to sugar-coat his ideas.
Bill should just write a huge check to the US Treasury if the guilt is getting too much for him.
I really wonder about issues such as this.
We can beat up on Bill Gates, have at it.
But, what about the larger issues? Will people displaced by automation have some kind of gainful employment, above subsistence level?
I know history teaches us that we saw a huge decline in people involved in farming in this country, as former farm workers migrated to cities and found jobs. As farming became more mechanized there was less need for human labor. And those people found low skilled jobs in cities.
I know I’m oversimplifying but hope others can add to this discussion about what will displaced workers do; what sorts of jobs will they do, and who will be paying their paychecks to do that work? It’s not clear to me that displaced fast food or warehouse type workers, will easily find other employment in today’s world.
Any thoughts???
Just another mechanism to raise taxes that would be applied to fewer and fewer workers.
# Bill Gates the Socialist
Globalists are socialist losers.
I betcha Microsoft technologies are complicit — programming languages, IDEs, embedded OS.
Bill has deep pockets.
And vote, right Bill?
It does, through its human owner.
How about you pay double for all the non-citizens you hire and bring here?
Getting sick of rich leftist retards.