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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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(Score: 1) by Bokononist on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:12AM
Do you know what, I responded originally to the part of your post that refers to a consumer economy. I made quite a long post and I managed to lose it all while switching between tabs so only retyped a small part of it as I was going to bed. In hindsight it doesn't respond to your post directly at all.
In a nutshell, I think we are heading towards a time of greater automation and thus greater personal freedom. What I don't think is a great future is one where everyone that is not doing a menial job because of automation has to become a consumer, 'consume consume consume baby, what the fuck else is a pleb like you good for?' I think it is a narrow minded idea(not suggesting its yours btw) that could hold back a great new period in the technological age.
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