Quartz: And so you could introduce a tax on robots… Bill Gates: There are many ways to take that extra productivity and generate more taxes.
Exactly how you’d do it, measure it, you know, it’s interesting for people to start talking about now.
Some of it can come on the profits that are generated by the labor-saving efficiency there.
Some of it can come directly in some type of robot tax.
I don’t think the robot companies are going to be outraged that there might be a tax. It’s OK.
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