Bill Gates has called for a tax on robots to balance the Government’s income as jobs are lost to automation. He said the levy could help slow down the pace of change and provide money to hire additional employees in sectors that require people, such as health care.
Ah… the 21st century version of an automobile tax to save workers in the buggy whip industry.
I can just see an army of Terminator looking IRS Agents going to collect the taxes from the working robots! A storm is coming!
Can’t have change coming too fast now, not like when you had to ram down a bug filled operating system to make a muck or two.
how do you tax robots? they don’t even get paid.
I like the “slow down the pace of change” part. Maybe that thinking underlay the improvement of Windows.
Ok. Cheap shot.