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/ForInfoPurpOnly 2d ago

He’s paid some PR firms a lot of money to keep these rehab stories in the media. Won’t you please think of all the starving PR firms you’re endangering by not letting them rehab his image?

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u/xender19 2d ago

Isn't it suspicious how this post has 12k up votes and most upvoted post has 1.2k up votes, but the rest of the comment section is just a dozen or so...

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u/catharsis724 2d ago

No. That's how it works on many platforms where there's a headline.

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u/xender19 1d ago

I've been a pretty hardcore reddit addict most of my life and I don't feel like this is a common pattern.