I love how you start with "the rich" and imply that washing and dishwashing machines displaced the jobs of people employed for those purposes. You need to generate enough money to live comfortably with to be able to hire people to do this for you. These tools would just be bought for the people they employ to use.

As far as taxes are concerned, Apple and many others do the same and you have to keep your stakeholders happy. If you can legally increase your working capital, you would fail in your judiciary duties not to. Sorry, but that is how it works. If you were a shareholder, you would be pissed if they didn't. On the Robot tax, it reminded me and really drove home a recent comment made by the pharmaceutical industry. They responded to the request of moving their manufacturing operations back to the states by stating it would not really add more jobs. Since they would plan on automating everything they can in their manufacturing process.