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Bill Gates: Prepare to be Assimilated

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @08:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the borg-revisited dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday March 17 2014, @10:10PM

    by Geotti (1146) on Monday March 17 2014, @10:10PM (#17901)

    If you don't pay the plebes they can't in turn give the money back for the shiny.

    Who said they need money, or the working class?
     

    Dead execs and 1%'ers after their visit to the guillotine.

    If they auto-manufacture a shitload of drones first, then it'll be the 99% after the visit to the guillotine and the 1% enjoying a life in abundance.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by dyingtolive on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:05AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:05AM (#17933)

    You'll always need people to repair the drones, and to build new ones. You're suggesting they're acting so shortsighted they'd do stuff like tank a company in terms of making next quarter's metr...

    Shit.

  • (Score: 1) by Nikker on Tuesday March 18 2014, @04:41AM

    by Nikker (227) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @04:41AM (#17963)

    Exactly this. We imagine every labor job (skilled and unskilled) assumed by mechanical process. The richest in the land have more dollar bills than they ever thought possible. They realize this is just because they are the only ones with dollar bills. They pay their servants in dollar bills but the 99% of people out there no longer have such bills. So now they should be asking themselves, how about if everyone just adopts a new form of currency or just solely relies on barter? Mr BG is just so far off the mark on this one it just can't happen. The paper money they will hold will become worthless since it is only as good as it sustains the people you wish to control.