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: 2) by Daniel Dvorkin on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:56AM
Sure, because corporate accounting gets to use a different definition of "income" from the one applied to human beings. That's a legal fiction, and one we the people can rewrite if we choose.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @07:47PM
But...but...but... I thought corporations WERE human beings!