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Bill Gates: Prepare to be Assimilated

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @08:03PM   
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."

• Re:He has acumen up the ying-yang Re:He has acumen up the ying-yang (Score: 5, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:02AM

  by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:02AM (#18047)

  Just read the article... so none of the "quotes" in the summary are actually in the article at all. Neither the author nor Gates said any of this. In fact Gates did not say anything close to what the summary is suggesting.

  What he did say is

  Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses… it’s progressing, Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set… 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

  Now, while I still disagree with Gates on this, it isn't nearly as stupid as the "become corporate slaves" that the poster sl4shd0rk is quoting. The deceitful on the part of the poster and the editors at Soylent.

  So, if the editors at Soylent are not going to bother reading the articles or... you know... do editing. Why does this site even exist? Seriously. I want an answer from someone on staff about this. A simple "sorry, I did not read the article, my bad" and a correction attached to the article itself would suffice; but getting people to actually admit they are wrong is apparently impossible.

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• Re:He has acumen up the ying-yang (Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:24AM

  by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:24AM (#18065)

  Correction, I meant to say that the first article had it as a quote, not Gates. (guess I should read and edit what I type as well)

  So the article itself is dishonest, as Gates did not say anything close to it. But the summary is confusing the issue.

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