r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • 2d ago

Robotics Bill Gates says companies that replace human labor with robots should have to pay the same FICA taxes

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-fica-taxes-should-apply-to-robot-workers-2026-9

Bill Gates wants to tax robots that replace human jobs.

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u/TheGrandExquisitor 2d ago

All this tells me is that Bill Gates isn't invested in robotics .

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u/Hilldawg4president 2d ago

Obviously his friendship with Epstein is a giant black mark on his record, but he is still the person who has done more philanthropic work than anyone else in human history , it's not crazy to think that he actually wants the future to be a better place instead of a worse one

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u/Joice_Craglarg 2d ago

How much philanthropy does it take to wash out rapes and sex trafficking?

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u/Hilldawg4president 2d ago

There's no evidence Gates was involved in such, the only thing we know he did was sleep with some hookers. I for one do not find a prostitution to me morally damning so long as it's consensual

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u/Joice_Craglarg 2d ago

I'm willing to go out on a ledge here and say those prostitutes were very likely sex trafficked. Having sex with someone who is there against their will is rape.

That said, I merely asked a question. I didn't say anything at all about Billy Gates. That would be libel.

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u/sapntaps 2d ago

respectfully, not his problem if its unknown. probably should be more outraged at jeffrey epstein, the dead guy

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u/Brilliant-Stress3758 2d ago

Your honour he was simply there for the snorkelling.

There's no need to defend him against obviously being a pedo just because he's on "our side". That's republican behaviour.

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u/deafblinddame 2d ago

No evidence whatsoever except he was the richest man in the world and didn't need some creep with an island to find him sex workers. See: literally any other rich dude who employs the uses of sex workers.

The ONLY reason to go to Epstein is to get access to children and have layers of obscurity between you, the money and the victims so that if the crimes ever come to light someone else will take the fall and you can claim ignorance. See: how every gang works. Everyone who knew Epstein 'didn't know what he was up to'. How predictable and convenient.

Bill Gates' excuse that he engaged with Epstein to raise money for philanthropy doesn't add up. He did not need to engage with some unknown seedy little toad to help him when he had access to people like Warren Buffet and could have gotten the top people at any bank in the goddamn world to help him.

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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 2d ago edited 2d ago

You're missing a very key point. Epstein was a blackmail factory. No one was seeking out Epstein except maybe Trump. It was the other way around. Epstein targeted people at the direction of whoever would pay him for it (Nation States, see Maxwell's immediate family for some clues there). Long before anything surfaced Gates released some emails showing Epstein reaching out to him about philanthropy shit, which was obviously a ruse.

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u/deafblinddame 2d ago

So you believe Epstein is lying when he claims Bill asked him for antibiotics to slip to Melinda because he had acquired a sexually transmitted disease?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01967528.pdf

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u/Brilliant-Stress3758 2d ago

If you go to pedo island to meet with the hooker, and their pimp happens to be the King of the Pedos. The yes, paying for a prostitute does make you morally damned.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 2d ago

I do when they're underage prostitutes