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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 strattitarius on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:24PM

    by strattitarius (3191) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:24PM (#18364)

    The problem with simplifying the tax code is that it is also a HUGE CREATOR of jobs. Think of how many lawyers, accountants, accounting firms, H&R blocks, etc. that are related to taxes. Not only that, most of what makes corporate accounting difficult is related to taxes, putting money in the proper "buckets", proving it was supposed to be in those "buckets", and other functions that would be pointless with out crazy tax laws. So take your accounting department (which computers have already cut in half) and cut them in half.

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