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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 WillAdams on Tuesday March 18 2014, @08:25AM
The full story is available on-line:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm [marshallbrain.com]
It's a shame that discussions back in the '70s about reducing the work week due to computers and automation improvements and making arrangements for people to own enough stock to ensure a basic living income were never followed up on.
Since then, wages as a share of the GDP have been declining since 1972, so unless something changes, we can look forward to a three class society:
- those who own the means of automated production and recycling and the sources of raw materials
- those who have skills and talents which can't be automated
- everyone else
Sad.
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