Bill Gates: Robots should pay taxes

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that companies that use robots in place of human labour should pay some form of tax on the profits that automation derives.
In an interview with Quartz, Gates said: “Right 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. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level. You can&rsqu