Bill Gates: tax rules favor buying AI over hiring, accelerating white-collar replacement
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-05
On FT Live, Bill Gates argued tax rules tax labor more heavily than capital spending on robots or AI tokens, pushing businesses to replace workers faster. Once properly set up and with rapidly improving versions, "it is very cheap to replace white collar labor" — not just law or consulting, but "every area of the economy."
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