>"If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed," says Gates in a recent interview with Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think we'd tax the robot at a similar level."
is he right, Sup Forums?
cnbc.com
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>Bill Gates: Bioterrorism could kill more than nuclear war — but no one is ready to deal with it
jesus christ, not even able to have rights, and rbots are already taxed
We should tax computers too since they're stealing the jobs of people who would otherwise be hired to draw lines on a piece of paper and make sophisticated tables with over a million entries. Fuck calculators as well.
Robots are the new goyim.
This. Not to mention tractors. One tractor should pay the same taxes that 20 agricultural laborers would have paid.
>mfw history has proven I was right all along. LMAOing with my main man Ted K.
He's got a good idea but there's some issues.
>robots don't get sick but might break down needing repairs
>robots don't ever not show up for work
>robots are efficient
>robots don't fuck up and break stuff if you design it right
>robots don't ask for breaks or for higher wages
>robots can work 24/7
Their production rate will highly outweigh any minor taxes set on them because companies that can afford to this will continue to afford to do this for the rest of eternity.
Bioterrorism or nuclear war, either way you're kind of fucked at that point just call it the final happening and say good bye to the rest of humanity.
>the machine apocalypse kicks in the moment that Skynet is threaded on
>taxing a robot
I mean, here they tax pollutants. I don't think it's that weird of a progression.
Never trust what this fucker says. But he's right about bioterrorism
it definitely warrants looking into.i don't think taxing robots is the answer but, if automated workers take enough of a dent out of the economy, it might actually be cheaper to pay burger flippers their $15ph.
slippery slope
if we tax robots, it just opens up the door to taxing anything and everything
How about we start with corporations actually paying taxes instead
>No taxation without representation.
>Nanobots count as individual robots
>Robots become the largest voting block in the country.
>Rich white men who own the robots get 10^2352351 votes each.
MAGA
>robots don't get paid
>robots have a total of $0 in their bank account
>robots hould pay taxes
is bill gates autistic?
*bodgabots
How exactly would we even go about doing that? Forget about all the ethical mumbo jumbo about robots and computers lacking rights in the first place, but how in the fuck do you tax a machine that isn't even capable of receiving a paycheck?
It seems more like he's asking we tax companies even more if they actually bring in automation, which is fucking retarded, since that would just de-incentivize people from adding automation to their workplace at all.
>Civilized society will be a dichotomy between robot designers and robot owners on top, and 90% of people who can only do work that robots are too powerful to do. (Burgers, motor oil smoothies)
>How can humans even compete?
He's saying that if a company replaces a worker with a robot the company should pay whatever income taxes that worker would have paid if he kept his job.
robots btfo
Why do whites tend to be socialists, or Jew puppets? Their cuckness in their genes is beyond scary.
I will defend robots against taxation because they do not have political representation.
It makes sense, I think Bill Gates is kinda redpilled, however the robots that are taxed will pay for deadbeats on benefits that would have been doing the job. Saves me paying for them but who knows if it will lower taxes or just cause the managers to employ even less from the extra expenditures.
The biological warfare is true, anthrax, from what I heard of it, is terrifying. He is a philanthropist from what I hear, instead of taking in many immigrants he actually goes to fix the root of the countries problems.
I'm curious to see if he said anything political over the years but deserving of respect nonetheless
the point is that existing tax policy discourages the use of human labor which distorts the market in a way that exacerbates the job loss due to technology while at the same time eroding the tax base
on the other hand it also encourages technological progress so maybe it's worth it in the long term
yeah spread that bullshit gates. i bet this shitty idea will spread like your shitty windows and i believe that most governments will hit you up on that idea
i myself will still wipe my robots clean of you pax taying windows and install my own untaxed gnu/linux on it you fucker.
maybe game-addicted kids and will pay your taxes but i'm out and trade my shit in bitcoin exclusively if this happens
If replacing the worker saves money, the company will have higher profits, therefore higher taxes. Should it also apply to software? Back in the old days, all accounting work was done by bookkeepers and accountants, maintaining manual records, and constantly reconciling the accounts. Spreadsheet software allowed one person to do the same amount of work as several people using pencil and paper.
>(((tool tax)))
Can't pay income taxes if they don't get any wages.
Good point. Microsoft should pay income taxes equal to the total earning potential of those who would be working if not for Excel.
WHERE IS MY MONEY YOU METAL FUCK?!
>good goy! don't tax my robots
Yeah he is.
I'm inclined to think that the corporate tax rate should be based upon the quality and quantity of employment a company is providing.
A company that is employing a lot of workers at good wages should pay little taxes since they are doing a service to the society by providing good employment.
On the other hand a company who employ relatively few people and whose profits are made from robots or computers (or alternatively a company that employs a lot of Chinese wage slaves.) should be taxed at a considerably higher level since their company is not providing quality employment and when the people who can't find employment come to ask the government for gibmedats its unfair for companies that provide quality employment to be held responsible.
You do realize just saying that is blasphemy. You must worship corporations.
what consitutes a taxable robot? Is a single robo arm thing on an assembly line taxable? If not, where do we start taxing them?
kek
>good goy, stay productive and pick fruits for a living
Robots shouldn't earn money because money is debt, and nobody and nothing should be in debt to a machine. What Mr. Gates is suggesting is that we should live a life of servitude to machines. Is he fucking for real?
No, because the tax money is used for schools, roads, and other services a robot doesnt need or want.
Robots are just tools for the owner, I'm not sure how you can tax tools since you don't pay them any money in the first place.
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He's obviously not literally saying robots should earn an income and have income tax applied. He's saying a corporation's earnings should be taxed when they use robots.
Well you see, here's the thing: robot's aren't paid a thing. How u gone tax dere income if they ain't making no money?? That just don't make sense
this is actually an interesting idea
No Schlomo, you are the jew.
15 dollar minimum wage for robots.
That's asinine. As someone mentioned above, Excel spreadsheets have replaced the jobs of millions of people through efficiency and automation of data. Should we tax each spreadsheet? Would taxation be applied on a workbook-basis, or a sheet-basis, or on a cellular basis? Maybe taxed per calculation performed?
>liberal companies create computers
>tax computers
>no taxation without representation
>robots able to vote
>liberals program computers to vote democrat
Try harder next time Billy boy.
>Implying they're not already doing that.
this is now a robots getting BTFO thread
Should we tax a conveyor belt because someone isn't physically moving the object?
I agree with you, I was being sarcastic with my first post. Not to mention telephone operators replaced by computers and all sorts of other jobs. Bill Gates is just a butthurt cuck that wishes he stayed relevant for more than about a decade.
>tax robot for doing my work
>i get gibs me dat
Sounds good.
Absolutely right about bioterrorism. As far as taxing robots go, honestly might not be a terrible idea if they become a big problem with causing unemployment. Could help pay a potential basic income program in the future if the need arises.
I wonder how much it would cost to pay taxes on high-frequency trading algorithms as if they were stockbrokers
How do you make a robot pay income taxes? Or does he mean companies should pay the equivalent of what a normal worker would pay in taxes?
They should apply a horse tax to our cars!
>mfw the robots declare war on humans because taxation violates the NAP
Ethno-virus is the solution.
Of course. All jobs that have been lost either to automation or other tech advancements should have their potential taxes paid for by companies that employ the technology that put them out of business.
>Auto companies should pay the taxes that all the potential buggy whip manufacturers and horse shit removers would have paid.
No taxation without representation, meatbag.
The number of humans on Earth is arbitrary. We should all be sterilized except for a select few, and then when we peace out from this gay Earth they can reap the rewards of thousands of years of progress by millions of people. I say it's our social duty, in fact.
The luddites were not competely wrong.
Our economic structures are based on consumerism. I produce something and am compensated for that production. I use my compensation to purchase the production of others. Others use their compensation to purchase my production. Whether I make shoes, flip burgers, manage others, manage others money, or if I’m one of the few I manage my own money but in some way there is production. Until recently the major source of production was labor. It is egalitarian in that almost everyone is born capable of labor. Technological innovation and invention have reduced the amount of human labor necessary for production. Human muscle power was replaced first by animal and now by machine. Machines today far exceed the human capacity for strength, dexterity, endurance, accuracy and precision. The missing piece in the doom of the value of human labor is AI. Elon Musk thinks it's dangerous to society and this is one reason why. It's not skynet you need to worry about it's that when AI truly arrives it will make human labor worthless. The subsequent social upheaval will not be pleasant for some. Labor's value is decreasing at an accelerating pace. This is causing problems we all see.
When labor becomes worthless as it soon will, what will happen to society? When the only way to achieve compensation is to already own capital what will happen to the great majority of the population that own nothing of value?
Isn't this the basis of "real" Communism
With what income would they pay these taxes? They don't get paid at all. The whole point of replacing people with robots is that you don't have to pay them.
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart.
New thread felow autists.
kek genius, we just make up money and the robots have to take loans to support the humans gibs
So corporations, which are made up of people, are not people, but robots are?
>This is what liberals actually believe.
Is that why niggers don't pay taxes?
If he wasn't so autism he would just say that he wants robot tax.
But then we will also have to give them voting rights, won't we? And free healthcare! And vacation days!
Robot workforce is inevitable, we should rather concern ourselves with how we will work out as a society where all physical labor got replaced.
Its called repairs, instead of paying humans rthey will use it for repairs
>robots elect robo-Trump in 2024
>he deports all humans and builds a firewall
This is the future we chose
"Igor it's Bill here. The plan was a success. A Microsoft computer in every home. Every office. Every school. Every government. Just say the word and I will activate Stage 2."
>All physical labor is gone
>Tons of shit is being made automatically for free
You think all that shit is just going to be thrown in a pile somewhere? Goods will be devalued so fucking much that they'll basically just be handed to us. Provided the (((wealthy))) don't horde everything, that is.
>buy yourself a cheap robotic vacuum to clean your carpets
>"but that's a job someone could have done... the robot needs to pay taxes"
>end up jacking up the price of cheap robotics so they're "taxed"
>only massive companies can afford this retarded tax
>goyim can't access the new technologies
>jewed again
fuck off bill
The wealthy will do their best to stop that.
They want things to stay the way they are because now they make the most.
>pot calling the kettle black
Bill Gates is literally the worst human being ever to walk the earth. He deserves to be shot.
Technically they already pay income tax because their owners do. In fact robots already pay more in income tax than people do
>No, because the tax money is used for schools, roads, and other services a robot doesnt need or want.
But humans need those services, and they are paid for by taxes on humans. If there are no humans being taxed because they've all been replaced by robots then no services for humans.
Reminder that Bill Gates is the only powerful person on the planet who is taking concrete steps to lower the sub-Saharan African birthrate by promoting contraception and use of vaccines and he doesn't get shit for it by the MSM.
Even if the corporation with robots had to pay taxes based on the robots, they'd still come out ahead of human workers - who also have things like healthcare, sick days, holidays, overtime, workers' compensation, unionization, etc. etc.
and robots can work 24/7 in pitch darkness and literally lethal environments - you could have a warehouse of flammables filled with halon gas instead of oxygen/nitrogen to prevent fires
I'm surprised Bill is mentioning the specter of bio-terrorism. I figured the elites would want to blind side us when they finally deploy a depopulating plague.
Maybe we should tax computer software, as it made paper-based jobs redundant in many areas.
Enjoy your trillions of $$$ in back tax Bill :^)
reliance on government redistribution has never ended in a disaster
GATES CONFIRMED A FILTHY COMMUNIST
Sounds like he just wants all the robots to himself.
The idea is that the robot owners are they only ones with capital.
>silicon valley somehow manages to automate food production
>could never and has never fucking grown food
>fuck GMOs because "muh nature"
>fuck human quality control
>your common store bought apple now features worms
Some people are so fucking chalk full of cognitive dissonance that they see Bill Gates says it so all the sudden it's interesting.
>more machines = less jobs = less consumption = rip capitalism
hmmm
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Japs already do this OP.
Hmm... his mother's side of the family, at least, is a banking family.
Which makes sense, because this is Jewish as fuck.