Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs
http://bgr.com/2014/03/14/bill-gates-interview-robots/Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates isn’t going to sugarcoat things: The increasing power of automation technology is going to put a lot of people out of work. Business Insider reports that Gates gave a talk at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington, DC this week and said that both governments and businesses need to start preparing for a future where lots of people will be put out of work by software and robots.
“Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses… it’s progressing,” Gates said. “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.”
As for what governments should do to prevent social unrest in the wake of mass unemployment, the Microsoft cofounder said that they should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans over algorithms. This means perhaps eliminating payroll and corporate income taxes while also not raising the minimum wage so that businesses will feel comfortable employing people at dirt-cheap wages instead of outsourcing their jobs to an iPad.
And it’s not just “low-skilled” workers who will have to worry about automation. As Business Insider points out, The Economist earlier this year predicted that high-paying jobs such as accountants, real estate sales agents and commercial pilots would all lose their jobs to software within the next 20 years.
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03-17-2014, 04:49 PM #1Registered User
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Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs
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03-17-2014, 04:49 PM #2
Well it was bound to happen sooner rather than later.
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03-17-2014, 04:50 PM #3Drakebrah
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Robots will end up killing every single human on the planet. Humans are so stupid for progressing with this technology. This will end us all. And just imagine if robots start taking cell tech.
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03-17-2014, 04:50 PM #4Subhuman Incel
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But can a robot talk about art history?
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Start planning now by having less kids and shrinking the population.....Originally Posted by TheGainsBrah
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03-17-2014, 04:50 PM #6Registered User
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EE master race checking in, i'll be building these robots and lol'ing at all of the peasants who get outclassed by them
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03-17-2014, 04:51 PM #7wutdafukdidujusaytomeulib
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Work in IT. Unless they design a million dollar super computer named Watson my job will always need human to human interaction.
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03-17-2014, 04:52 PM #8erik is bananaman
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03-17-2014, 04:52 PM #9Subhuman Incel
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Inb4Originally Posted by Kadafi25
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03-17-2014, 04:52 PM #10Formerly 265lbs
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03-17-2014, 04:52 PM #11
MIS major no care. Someone has to program and maintain these things.
brb I want 15 an hour at mcdonalds
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03-17-2014, 04:52 PM #12Registered User
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Goodbye all you cubicle workers who like to brag about how easy your life is because you sit on a computer all day and do jack chit.
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03-17-2014, 04:53 PM #13
Not sure if I would want a piece of software driving a plane I am in.
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03-17-2014, 04:53 PM #14I'm a guy.
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Well, yeah.
I always watch movies that take place in the future where there are a million robots doing stuff for everyone, and I always think - what the hell do people do for a living?
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03-17-2014, 04:55 PM #15Repped
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if a robot was to take my job id snap it in half
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03-17-2014, 04:56 PM #16One Of Our Top Posters!
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When a bleeding heart liberal like Gates says don't raise the minimum wage, you know you should listen.
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03-17-2014, 04:57 PM #17Registered User
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Cancer already took our Jobs.
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Except for trades that are out in the field.But then again plastics are taking my job away....
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03-17-2014, 04:57 PM #19Fkn gandalf reading my mindOriginally Posted by Mrs Grudge
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I heard about this last April at an investor event, they referred to it as Human Redundancy.
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03-17-2014, 04:58 PM #22wutdafukdidujusaytomeulib
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03-17-2014, 04:58 PM #23
that's just great unemployment has never been higher and now we have to deal with robocops too.
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03-17-2014, 04:59 PM #25
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03-17-2014, 05:00 PM #26
the long term is that people aren't going to need to work in jobs like we have today, so yeah the short term is going to be bad when some people have jobs and some don't, but it's only going to encourage a shift to a better society overall so dealwithit.jpg
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03-17-2014, 05:02 PM #27Yeah it is lolOriginally Posted by egalitarian69
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03-17-2014, 05:03 PM #28
Aw fuk bye...
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03-17-2014, 05:04 PM #29me 2 brahOriginally Posted by TallJJ
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