“如果人们对创新所带来的结果的恐惧总体上超过了他们对创新的热情,这真的很糟糕,”他说,“这意味着他们不会从积极的方面去塑造创新。而且,你知道,跟禁止创新的某些方面相比,征税当然是解决问题的更好办法。”
The idea of using taxes to support people put out of work by automation has been catching on in the tech world, but Mr Gates went further, pushing for a direct levy on robots that would match what human workers pay.
利用税收来支持因自动化普及而失业的人们的想法,在科技界变得越来越流行,但盖茨更进一步,呼吁对机器人直接征收与人类工人水平相当的税金。
“Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things,” he said. “If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.”
“现在,人类工人在工厂里工作,他创造了比如说5万美元的价值,这笔收入会被征税,要缴所得税、社会保障税等等,”他说,“如果一个机器人来做同样的工作,你会认为我们应该对机器人征收同样水平的税金。”
The extra money should be used to retrain people the robots have replaced, Mr Gates said, with “communities where this has a particularly big impact” first in line for support.
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