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sl4shd0rk writes:
"Bill Gates says everyone needs to prepare to be out of work in 20 years due to Robots/software taking over most jobs. In preparation for this, Gates recommends people 'should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans' and reduce operating overhead for businesses by 'eliminating payroll and corporate income taxes while also not raising the minimum wage'. Bill Gates, you may recall, is the former CEO of Microsoft whose business acumen has brought the technology sector such things as Metro, Windows Phone and Xbox One.
BusinessInsider took a similar theme earlier this year."
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Bill Gates: Prepare to be Assimilated
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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Fry
(Score: 2) by Boxzy on Monday March 17 2014, @08:53PM
isn't that enough? No more driving jobs, no more cashier jobs, no carpenters, roofers, window cleaners, salesmen, managers, accountants, bankers, web designers, economists, actuaries, ten thousand other crap office jobs, every productive job, plumbers, soldiers, astronauts... the jobs that are left are extremely close to pointless.
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @09:46PM
> ...every productive job,...
[HHGTTG]
So you're saying that jobs are shrinking for the B Ark population?
At some point the jerks at the Sirius Cybernetics Corp will be first against the wall.
[/HHGTTG]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Monday March 17 2014, @10:13PM
One story I found describes this scenario with a specially grown [rifters.com] slab of brain cells used to replace people in more complex tasks. There are a lot of other interesting technology elements in these stories, but this one really got me thinking about the approaches towards replacing people in various tasks.
(Score: 1) by RamiK on Tuesday March 18 2014, @07:21AM
Even a 30% lay-off will eliminate enough of the working class to guarantee a depression: With no one left to buy your wares, you start laying off product engineers one by one, but the market keeps shrinking and shrinking, so you keep cutting and culling. Until ten years later your streets are filled with homeless people that can't afford food, medicine or housing.