{"id":34700,"date":"2017-02-18T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/robots-that-steal-human-jobs-should-pay-taxes-gates-says"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:28","slug":"robots-that-steal-human-jobs-should-pay-taxes-gates-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/robots-that-steal-human-jobs-should-pay-taxes-gates-says","title":{"rendered":"Robots that steal human jobs should pay taxes, Gates says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-that-steal-human-jobs-should-pay-taxes-gates-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taxation and redistribution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and world\u2019s richest man, said in an interview Friday that robots that steal human jobs should pay their fair share of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, Social Security tax, all those things,\u201d he said. \u201cIf a robot comes in to do the same thing, you\u2019d think that we\u2019d tax the robot at a similar level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates made the remark during an interview with Quartz. He said robot taxes could help fund projects like caring for the elderly or working with children in school. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/911968\/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz reported<\/a> that European Union lawmakers considered a proposal to tax robots in the past. The law was rejected.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2017\/02\/18\/robots-that-steal-human-jobs-should-pay-taxes-gates-says.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2017\/02\/18\/robots-that-steal-hum...-says.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxation and redistribution. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and world\u2019s richest man, said in an interview Friday that robots that steal human jobs should pay their fair share of taxes. \u201cRight now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58671,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions\/58671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}