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Bill Gates: Prepare to be Assimilated

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

 
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  • (Score: 1) by NezSez on Tuesday March 18 2014, @03:38PM

    by NezSez (961) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @03:38PM (#18215) Journal

    I posted late, and hope I didn't kill any comments I modded, but...

    I haven't seen any mention of one solution to the scenario you are discussing which is this:

    If robots do *all* labor then there wouldn't be a traditional monetary/financial "cost" so to speak. We wouldn't need consumers in the traditional sense if we entered a "post-scarcity" economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_econom y [wikipedia.org]).
    The only costs would be physical in acquiring new base materials for production, recycling and the like which robots would be doing. We wouldn't "need" jobs or "salaries" as everything would be free. Then all of us would be free to psychologically brutalize each other with online comments all the time!

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    No Sig to see here, move along, move along...