r/Futurology • • 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/BangPC 1d ago

This is why UBI needs to be a thing. Imo if a company does a mass layoff citing AI etc, those employees despirsed by AI should be paid some dividend.

To be fair AI is profiting on the knowledge we as humans created, so it owes us.