Bill Gates: "If a robot replaces the work of a human, this robot must pay taxes like a human"

The next big revolution will be the arrival of robots to jobs, something that has already begun to happen in various regions of the world, in some companies and even in restaurants, where machines are taking control of production and automation chains. of tasks. This will mean a big change, and for example, in the European Union, they are already thinking about how to regulate it.

Among the voices that have given their opinion about the approaching revolution, it is from the Elon Musk who says that we must merge with the machines but we want to be irrelevant. And now Bill Gates, who asks that robots have the same fiscal responsibilities as humans.

Robots will allow humans to focus on empathy tasks

In a recent interview, Bill Gates shared his interesting vision of how things should be when robots are the majority in jobs, a scenario that is predicted to be a reality in the 2030s.

The former leader of Microsoft mentions that if companies are convinced to recruit robots as a workforce, this will have consequences, not only for humans but also for the companies themselves, since they should pay the same taxes as if they had human. This logic is due to the fact that companies that are opting for robots will continue to increase their revenues by reducing costs and increasing production so that each robot must be taxed at a similar level, and even higher than that of a human worker.

However, with the arrival of robots, not everything is bad news. This movement will allow humans to free themselves from workloads that ultimately affected physical and mental health. This will allow us to be participants in areas that are now being neglected, such as education or the care of the elderly or sick, which are tasks that require empathy and human understanding.

This is how Gates is asking governments to start working on clear rules in the face of the imminent arrival of robots, since companies will begin to see benefits from these short-term changes, hence the importance of setting taxes, or implementing the mentioned basic income, because that will be the only way for society to continue evolving.

Bill Gates mentions that we need an educated and prepared society for complex tasks since the physical and unspecialized works will be those that are eliminated with the arrival of the robots. This can also be translated as good news since the human being will look for the way to be better and not conform.