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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."

• Solutions! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:52PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:52PM (#18259)

  after advertising more robot workers and automation it dawned on me that
  maybe humans aren't really socialistic creatures after all and that all the
  automation would lead to fear/famine and destruction instead of an utopia.

  after having grown up a bit a new conclusion: humans are lazy and instead of
  going to war they will just "create jobs" in the paper shuffling business
    -aka- bureaucracy.

  the more robots and more automation the more bureaucracy as an offset of lost
  jobs is what i believe in now. of course getting a "paper shuffling" job will
  require many many more papers too.

  whoever is in charge should not forget to balance the paper requirements for a paper job
  accordingly, that is if too little paper we get a bad off-set (everybody gets a job and
  the scam becomes obvious) .. too much and nobody can find a job and the economy tanks
  (because nobody has paper ..errr...money to buy robot-made goods).