Bill Gates - Tax Robots

[Jolly_Penguin]

Seems to me this should be more about replacing income tax revenue lost as workers are replaced by such robots. How should that be handled?

 

[fast]

How can we even begin to answer the question of which robots to tax or which ones stand good as even being a robot without first addressing outterlayer metal color or manufacture country of origin?

 

[LordKiran]

Oh it's a robot per my definition, but ultimately beside the point since nobody has lost their job as a result of automatic doors in what the last century (If even?) So yes, your point of contention IS grasping.

And honestly, I'm not even sure how your question challenges my position since my position is that taxing robots is absurd one reason being that there are so many things you could categorize as robots.

So automatic transmissions and automatic doors should be taxed?

Loren do you even know what my argument is or is this you trying to be a contrarian?

 

[barbos]

How can we even begin to answer the question of which robots to tax or which ones stand good as even being a robot without first addressing outterlayer metal color or manufacture country of origin?

Clearly muslim robots must be banned, they are bad robots.

 

[fast]

How can we even begin to answer the question of which robots to tax or which ones stand good as even being a robot without first addressing outterlayer metal color or manufacture country of origin?

Clearly muslim robots must be banned, they are bad robots.

Sometimes we must do what's ordinarily not right when faced with achieving a greater good. Because the good that comes from banning them outweighs the bad is precisely why it's not wrong to do what might otherwise be.

 

[LordKiran]

Clearly muslim robots must be banned, they are bad robots.

Sometimes we must do what's ordinarily not right when faced with achieving a greater good. Because the good that comes from banning them outweighs the bad is precisely why it's not wrong to do what might otherwise be.

Well don't worry, Trump will be willing to call it what it is: Radical Robotic Terrorism

 

[RVonse]

An autonomous or semi-autonomous machine capable of producing labor without direct 1-to-1 input by an operator.

So the automatic doors at grocery stores are robots? They produce labor (replace a doorman) without an operator.

Is the automatic transmission in your car a robot?

No. And no. They aren't called robots and those machines have never been called robots.

If you want to know what a robot is, this is what they look like today:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rob...XHPiYKHYtTBPYQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=nachi+robot

or

https://www.google.com/search?q=rob...XHPiYKHYtTBPYQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=fanuc+robot

or

https://www.google.com/search?q=rob...AhXHPiYKHYtTBPYQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=abb+robot

As robots evolve in the future they may appear in different form someday. But for now, there should be no confusion on your part.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I never had anybody shift a manual transmission for me.

Sure of that?

Never hired a truck w/driver to do anything for you? Such as a delivery? Big trucks have manual transmissions.

 

[Axulus]

Seems to me this should be more about replacing income tax revenue lost as workers are replaced by such robots. How should that be handled?

Consumption tax

 

[LordKiran]

Seems to me this should be more about replacing income tax revenue lost as workers are replaced by such robots. How should that be handled?

Consumption tax

Who's going to pay it? In the scenario we are approaching, human labor is half-obsolete and only getting more dated as the years go by.

 

[braces_for_impact]

So what if the robot is a Muslim? Can it still get in on a work visa? Will extreme vetting be used?

 

[ZiprHead]

I never had anybody shift a manual transmission for me.

Sure of that?

Never hired a truck w/driver to do anything for you? Such as a delivery? Big trucks have manual transmissions.