Why taxing robots is not a good ideaBill Gates’s proposal is revealing about the challenge automation poses BILL GATES is an unlikely Luddite, however much Microsoft may have provoked people to take a hammer to their computers. Yet in a recent interview with Quartz, an online publication, he expressed scepticism about society’s ability to manage rapid automation. To forestall a social crisis, he m
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