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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @09:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @09:59PM (#19564)

    Here's one of my favorite recent stories about workers taking over a workplace (orig) when a damned useless corporation tries to screw them.

    When employee ownership in the USA comes up, Dunn-Edwards Paints springs immediately to mind.
    For good measure, here's another 99 companies in the USA where the majority ownership is the employees.

    I didn't say there were no employee-owned companies (or cooperatives) in the USA. What I mean is, it's not the norm. Corporations are the last refuge of kings and their courts. We like a hierarchical, dictatorial style of management and Big Business is clearly the dominant form of capitalism in the USA today.