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."
(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Monday March 17 2014, @10:42PM
I don't think this is flamebait. It's an extrapolation from semi-recent history, in particular, France (note the guillotine reference) where the balance of wealth became so lopsided, people started chopping heads.
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach."e arn_very_much_from_the_lessons/168709.html [thinkexist.com]
Aldous Huxley: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/that_men_do_not_l
Other variations: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/quotations/ lessons_of_history.html [age-of-the-sage.org]