Bill Gates: if a robot replaces a worker, why doesn't it pay into the pension fund?
_akpiper · x · 2026-09-30
The poster quotes Bill Gates from an Ezra Klein interview arguing for taxing AI work. Gates asks: if you fire a worker and hire a robot for the job, why do tax laws incentivize trading away human labor without asking the robot to pay into the pension fund — has the "pro-robot union" written the tax code to let pensions go bankrupt for anything not made of flesh? The remark reignites debate over taxation and labor substitution in the AI era.
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