Before Bill agrees to pay back taxes on all of copies of Windows, MS Office and other robots that his company created, I don't think he has a right to advocate taxing robots. He became the richest man alive simply because he created company that helped people automate their jobs, and improve productivity.
Does he want to tax my scripts created to help me automate my servers? No, why not? Because they are just scripts? What if I put them on something like Raspberry Pi and attach wheels to it? Is it now taxable?
For fucks sake, how smart people can have such dumb ideas is beyond me.
It's hard to say how much of what Gates says/does is truly what he believes or is a branding exercise for legacy purposes. The robot taxation seems like populist appealing nonsense...
Does he want to tax my scripts created to help me automate my servers? No, why not? Because they are just scripts? What if I put them on something like Raspberry Pi and attach wheels to it? Is it now taxable?
For fucks sake, how smart people can have such dumb ideas is beyond me.