an interview<\/a> that robots who take human jobs should pay taxes. If robots begin taking human jobs, the government will begin to lose the tax generated revenue needed to fund their work. Taxes paid by robots, just like any other tax, will help fund public goods benefiting humans (such as healthcare or education). Robots would be remarkably helpful in this manner as they won\u2019t have a problem paying these taxes as it doesn\u2019t affect their income or wellbeing at all- since they don\u2019t have any to begin with.<\/p>\nTo put his argument in perspective, Bill Gates explains that if we employ robots to do factory level jobs, we can reallocate our labor force to focus on jobs such as elderly care and tutoring that require human empathy. But without the income tax revenue from these factory jobs, there wouldn\u2019t be enough funding for government provision of these institutions. Therefore, the solution lies in the taxation of robots.<\/p>\n
But there is an obvious problem with this logic. How can we tax inanimate objects?<\/p>\n
Bill Gates is a big vague on the specifics of this concept. He mentions a few ideas such as charging the companies on the profits generated by the labor-saving efficiency or charging a tax on the production of robots.<\/p>\n
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