Bill Gates demands that robots pay taxes (and Elon Musk defends a universal basic income)

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If , according to experts, robots are likely to "steal" jobs from humans, how can we deal with a situation that promises to skyrocket unemployment rates? Two very high-profile techies, Bill Gates and Elon Musk , seem to have a clear answer to this question.

Both Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft , and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, are fully convinced that robots, machines and artificial intelligence will take over many jobs in the future and that the creation of new jobs will not be able to compensate for the "bloody" destruction of jobs that is coming.

Gates believes that one possible answer to this oman phone data problem would be to force robots to pay taxes (like the humans they are replacing). Musk, for his part, believes that the introduction of a universal basic income will be inevitable in the long term.

In a recent interview with the business website Quartz , Bill Gates openly talks about the need to tax robots that replace humans in certain jobs . Such taxes are, in Gates' view, absolutely necessary, since many services provided by the state are financed precisely by income taxes. "You can't just give up income taxes," Gates stresses.

The Microsoft founder acknowledges that increasing automation will wreak havoc on the current employment landscape, but he believes that humans will continue to be hired in those sectors where certain human qualities are absolutely necessary : ​​education and care for the elderly and disabled, for example.

To ensure that state benefits do not go down the drain due to job losses, Gates advocates taxing robot work . “Some would benefit from the labor efficiency associated with the work performed by robots, and others would directly benefit from the tax imposed on machines,” says Gates.