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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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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: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 17 2014, @09:31PM
Lathe or mill operators could much more cheaply and readily be repurposed into maintenance mechanics, which unlike most engineers(and many drafters) actually have a lot of experience fixing shit. You know, actually replacing motors or servos or gears with their own two hands instead of clicking on drawings and breakpoints all day. Or, if the manufacturing plant went full-retard and hired a bunch of Mexicans, they would lose their ISO certification and credibility after one their aircraft parts breaks in midair and sinks that 777 airliner.
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(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:55AM
Lathe or mill operators could much more cheaply and readily be repurposed into maintenance mechanics
Yes, but how many of them are needed?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday March 18 2014, @07:27AM
And the corollary, once practically no one has a job, who's going to buy anything?
No point in making commuter cars if there's no commuters.
Finally this is all monday morning quarterbacking. I've been driving the same commute road for a decade, thankfully with a variety of flex time options. Got stuck in "rush" hour last night, unusually, which a decade ago would have meant an hour plus extra for construction and/or accidents. Home in 35 minutes. Comically they're rebuilding roads and interchanges to assume 25% job growth, LOL. Probably lifetime peak 9-5 cubie dweller white collar employment was back in '07. We're going to have a great, empty, interstate system here.