Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggests to tax robots

Jafar Aghadadashov
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Baku. 18 February. REPORT.AZ/ Founder of Microsoft, billionaire Bill Gates suggested to levy taxes on robots replacing people in production.

Report informs referring to RBK, he told in his interview to Quartz.

"If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think we'd tax the robot at a similar level."

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