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Robots
are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax
companies’ use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of
automation and to fund other types of employment.
Funny. He made no
such suggestion when the spreadsheet and word processor replaced all of this:
When asked if he is “more on the side that government should
play an active role rather than rely on businesses to figure this out?” Gates responded: “Well, business can’t.”
Government can
play an active role; actively stop
subsidizing robots and actively stop
placing labor at a disadvantage.
Eliminate the minimum wage, such that businesses aren’t
forced to automate in order to offset artificially high wages; stop subsidizing
credit that then allows for higher investment in robots than would otherwise be
the case.
Do this, and businesses can
“figure it out.”
Bill Gates might advocate for solutions that strike at the
source of the problem, as opposed to solutions that will only result in
evermore government control over our lives.
Look, I said “might.”
