Bill Gates: If a robot takes a human job, it should be taxed

If a robot replaces a human's job, it should be taxed at a similar level to what the human worker was, according to Bill Gates. In a recent interview with Quartz, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. said if the business world wants to replace human labor, there should be some repercussions. "Right now if a human worker does you know, $50,000 worth 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," he said. Gates told Quartz that the business world wants to continue to make all the goods and services we have today, but free up human-labor, which may in return be allocated to focus on areas that are suffering the education system and care for the elderly. "All of those are things where human empathy and understanding are still very, very unique and we still deal with an immense shortage of people to help out there," he said.