Reminds me of the old joke about robots.

A Guy goes into a bar where all the bartenders are robots:
The guy sits down at the bar and the robot asks: “What will you have?
The guy replies, “Whiskey.” The robot brings back his drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
The guy say, “168”
The robot talks about physics, string theory and space exploration.
After the guy leaves, he pauses at the street corner and thinks about what he just encountered, and decides to go back.
The robot asks, “What’s your drink?”
The guy answers, “Whiskey.”
The robot serves the drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
This time the man replies, “100.”
The robot talks about Budweiser, and football.
The guy finishes his drink, leaves, but decides he'll try again.
The guy enters the bar and the robot asks him what he wants to drink.
The guy replies, “Whiskey.”
The robot serves the drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
This time the guy answers, “50.”
The robot leans in real close and slowly asks: “So, are you people still unhappy Hillary lost?”

Yes!
I foresee some effort on narrowing the legal definition of 'robot'.
Jobs for lawyers.

Reminds me of the story when Milton Friedman visited a site where the workers were
using shovels instead of machines. He was told that shovel use created more jobs.
He replied- Why not use spoons?

Degrees if stupidity. Until such time a machine or computer is sentient and can exercise its free will it is nothing more than a tool, a possession to be used for its intended purpose. Gates....(face palm)

The same logic could have been applied to Microsoft in the 1980's to "raise the tax level and even slow down the speed of that adoption" of its software. I wonder how Gates would have responded to such a proposal at the time.

Regardless, a "robot tax" would give a competitive advantage to any robot company located in a country that did not impose such a tax.

I didn't expect this kind of addled thinking from one of the "culprits" who fostered the computer revolution that is leading to highly capable robots. It reminds me of the automobile-resistant politicians who made laws restricting car speeds to walking speed, requiring someone walk in front of the infernal machine carrying a red lantern.

Comments and statements like that from Gates made me turn to Linux OS. I am free.

So much here. So much. First and foremost: Businesses don't PAY taxes, they only collect them. Owners of things pay taxes and consumers of things pay taxes! Either the owner of a method of production (stockholder) will pay the tax as assessed (such as is done with property taxes) or the price of the good the robot manufactures will reflect the additional tax (no mater how it is assessed). Taxing income is immoral -- as determined by Western Civilization beginning in the 1800's when Slavery began to be outlawed (only recently completed in many parts of the world). Slavery is the LEGAL seizure of part or all of the work product of one person by some other entity using the legal force and potential violence against the first individuals (it does not matter if the receiving party is a wealthy aristocrat or the Treasurer of the government.
This slavery seizes the power rightfully belonging to We the People and abuses the People with it. End Income Taxation and replace it with the much more honest FairTax (H.R. 25) or with a transparent Wealth Tax -- again designed to be obvious, open and transparent.

He better hope we don't adopt a stupid tax. Why do people think like this?

Kakistocrats like Gates are sooo interested in assisting the elderly and children. Bill Oren Boyle Gates .

So Gates thinks like a Democrat politician.

I propose Capitalist Robots. Each Capitalist (worker) should either do his job or buy a robot to do it and have a company "hire" his robot. The worker with no savings will need to work and save to invest in a robot. The more capital you have the more sophisticated robot you will be able to buy and the more an employer will pay for it's use. This robotic meritocracy, will lead to better and better robots and higher productivity. Men will be free to do human tasks and to be creative. You will always need to keep your robot in good working order and technologically up to date and be aware of the financial health of the employer. This would also solve the mobility problem because as an industry shifts geographically you don't need to move, just send your robot.

Tax, tax, tax. I’ve always thought how unfortunate that some of the most wealthy have similar mindsets. They could do so much more with the mindset of creating more wealth.

globalists have not met a tax they do not like...

I have thought for a while now that there would be a per hour of use tax on robots that was the same as the wages that they "displaced". It will usher in a whole new bureaucracy to just define and figure the taxes. Kind of like the custom duty fiasco.

The real issue is what IS a robot, and if the existing ones are grandfathered in.

We are surrounded by "robots"- elevators are robots really. How about those fast food soda machines we use every day. Most foods are made using automation, which is a form of robot technology. Your car is run by multiple automated robots to control combustion in the engine, help you steer and brake. What about the automatic tuners in your radio and TV- more robot technology.

So how much should Microsoft be taxed for spell and grammar check? Taxing robots generates a definition problem.

As I have said many times, I do think that the day will come when a robot based economy can make all the goods and services that we need for everyone to have at least a "middle class" living with less than 5% of the people working.

When that happens we will have to have something like a universal income so that the 95% can actually buy the stuff instead of it piling up in warehouses while people starve in the streets.

Where the money comes from to pay that is an interesting question.

Then why would a factory use robots if they have to pay taxes for them?
Didn't the parasitical humanoids get enough sales taxes for every itty bitty part and the sales taxes on the finished product...not to mention Taxes on the company by the town/ city as property/machinery!?!?!?

Gates is a mad man.

Gates fails to mention that more taxes will result from higher profits of the company with fewer employees to pay.

I have not watched the video yet; I have limited time at this machine. But I did read the comments by Gates. I have in the past thought he was being picked on and treated unjustly, by now I am thoroughly disgusted with him. Another means of getting us further away from freedom.

Bill Gates should be willing to pay an income tax on all of the programs he wrote that took jobs away from people, his nanobots are destroying jobs that used to be done by thousands with pencil and paper.
I think Bill may have always had leftist leanings, not possible for me to know for certain but he seemed to be uninvolved in politics until the size of his business suddenly became apparent to the power mongers who then threatened to destroy him for being too big by claiming that he was a virtual monopoly and had to be controlled. I think it was Senator Orrin Hatch who stated something along the lines of; "He should have come to us sooner to make sure what he was doing was okay!" He managed to keep the government from breaking up his little company, cost him millions in lawyer fees and corporate donations to the power brokers and then he turned hard left in his political leanings. I think it might be more to protect his holdings but it is probably what he really believes too. Those who have large enough holdings can protect themselves from destruction by going along with the socialist program. If he ever strays he will be destroyed and then he will be complaining; "But I was on your side!"

"The robot that takes your job should pay taxes."
I find this a very interesting premise and am reluctant to dismiss it out of hand. I intend to think it through. :-) BTW I believe AI will eventually become a reality. At least to some extent and to some extent it is a reality right now and smarter than some politicians

I think Gates is failing to realize that the higher you tax a company the more likely a robot will be working instead of a human. Ipso facto: you are taxing robots by taxing a company into laying off workers and bringing in robots.