Bill Gates: Robots Replacing Workers Should Pay the Same FICA Taxes as Humans
burkov · x · 2026-10-02
On the Ezra Klein show, Bill Gates argued that if a company fires a worker and replaces them with a robot, the robot should pay the same FICA tax the human did — active workers fund retirees, and firms shouldn't dodge pension obligations via AI. Burkov notes Gates has pushed this idea for a decade, quipping he's more curious about the Epstein question.
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