Why Bill Gates and others think the robot that steals your job should pay taxes

IMO, we need to go the other way and get rid of income from ownership. It's actually what causes the inevitable collapse of society.

Personally I look forward to working for our new Robot Overlords!

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We should definitely be looking at what kind of strategies we can put in place for the mass automation of lots of current jobs. How does this effect those people who lose their jobs? What strategies are in place to retrain and re-employ these people?

I for one would be happy to lose my job, working for other people sucks hard. I've got lots of ideas and interests that I would be happy to pursue if I had the resources, and maybe robots are one way to bring about a post-scarcity society.

The Fourth Industrial revolution is coming :scream:

Taxing Robots would help solve the argument of replacing humans to cut costs, and the rich simply ignoring the poor since humans have needs like food, drink and shelter which is a pain for the elite Business man who "needs" another $10 Million mansion and can get it with an indifferent robot :star:

I would consider something to be a robot that should be taxed if it is able to cover a significant part of a job that a human would do. I'm not sure how much it would be taxed though, either through production tax compared with a human production or an assessed wage tax, or something.

I think we should also be looking at starting up a robotic industry here in NZ. How is a good question to answer I think.

The same way that the US started its tech industry - massive government funding.