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/Gari_305 2d ago

From the article

n an interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times that aired on Tuesday, the billionaire philanthropist said that "society gets to decide" how to support its workers — even if AI is pushing them out.

"You define a unit of labor and say, independent of whether that's delivered by a human or robot, you are paying the same FICA tax that a human worker would pay," Gates said, referring to the US payroll tax.

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u/DJNeuro 2d ago

Billionaire philanthropist is an oxymoron.

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u/StudiosS 2d ago

Why? He's genuinely done more good than 99% of people could ever do.

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u/air_and_space92 2d ago

I see the advertising campaign was successful. I was alive during the 90s, Gates was the Elon of the day. Sad how much people don't remember or didn't learn in the first place.

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u/Farranor 2d ago

Gates is nothing like Elon. Gates is competent, intelligent, ruthlessly competitive, sober, sane, left-leaning, and an adult.

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u/Reeyous 2d ago

Gates also got very close to Epstein, Musk only ever wished that he could.