Robots can perform surgery, defuse bombs and serve up the perfect flat white. Soon they may need programming to fill out their own tax returns. As anxiety grows over the swaths of jobs susceptible to automation, figures as disparate as Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and Beno?t Hamon, the new champion of the French left, are backing the idea that governments should use the tax system to redress the balance between men and machines.
機器人可以做外科手術、拆除炸彈、以及端上完美的小白咖啡(flat white)。再過不久,它們也許需要編程填寫自己的報稅單。隨著大量易受自動化影響的工作崗位引起的焦慮日益增多,從微軟(Microsoft)聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人比爾?蓋茨(Bill Gates)到法國左翼新領軍人物伯努瓦?阿蒙(Beno?t Hamon),形形色色的人士都支持政府應動用稅收制度在人與機器間恢復平衡的想法。