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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jose Canseco Issues Stern Warning Over the Rise of Robots
[LI] Former Major League baseball player Jose Canseco won’t be welcoming our new robotic overlords anytime soon.

Monday, Canseco published a flurry of tweets warning about the mechanization of jobs once held by humans. Don’t worry, robots "won’t attack and kill us like in the movies," they’ll just steal all of our jerbs.

The robot threat is being taken too lightly. Mega gazillionaire Bill Gates is far more accepting of the robotic revolution but has suggested robots be taxed like human workers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2017 06:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yep. The wheel was a serious bad idea. All those porters who lost their jobs.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/21/2017 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, next they'll want to marry your daughter* and use your restroom.

* but wait, haven't they already been using 'that' part for decades now?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Is artificial intelligence really artificial? I for one welcome our robotic overlords.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/21/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Oldest job theif!

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/21/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  If as a society we couldn't handle jobs moving offshore we will do little better with jobs taken over by robots. I think we will have a problem.

Assuming nobody has to work and robot society can now pay for everyone to live a life of semi-comfort would we get:
(1) idiocracy with everyone on their toilet lounge chair playing games, watching movies, etc?
(2) The federation in which folks turn to the arts or join a semi-military exploration society to pass away the boredom?
(3) Or Detroit as everything has little value folks will have little compunction with destroying it?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/21/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  All of the above + virtual reality
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/21/2017 14:28 Comments || Top||

#7  We already have virtual healthcare insurance so why not?
Posted by: Warthog || 02/21/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm going to hope for #2 but expect #1.
Posted by: Secret Master || 02/21/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||

#9  We need them to care for us during the multi-generational trip to TRAPPIST-1.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2017 16:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Watch. Everything will be hunky-dory until a one cent stamp tax is enacted.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/21/2017 17:01 Comments || Top||

#11  How about 4) we'll just be doing different jobs? I've changed my career(s) twice already, so maybe third time's a charm?
Posted by: Raj || 02/21/2017 19:13 Comments || Top||


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Tax Experts Bill and Melinda: Robots must also pay taxes. 'It's OK.'
[Breitbart] Microsoft founder Bill Gates called for a robot tax to offset the loss of jobs done by humans as a result of advancements in automation during an interview with Quartz.

"Certainly there will be taxes that relate to automation. Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things," declared Gates. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level."

"There are many ways to take that extra productivity and generate more taxes. Exactly how you’d do it, measure it, you know, it’s interesting for people to start talking about now," he continued. "Some of it can come on the profits that are generated by the labor-saving efficiency there. Some of it can come directly in some type of robot tax. I don’t think the robot companies are going to be outraged that there might be a tax. It’s OK."
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#1  Next a California pol proposed to give the vote to robots as fewer human workers are available as more businesses flee old Cali.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Makes me (even more) embarrassed to use this guy's software. Between this sort of crap and MSNBC, almost think that using Linux would be a conservative cause.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/21/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I get more and more interested in Linux. Gates software is a lot like his ideas.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/21/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  What does Windows offer that Linux doesn't? There are plenty of word processing and spreadsheet applications out there. There are plenty of different browsers and email applications. You can even do like Hillary did and set up your own email server. The next time Gates declares my version of Windows obsolete is when I'll make the switch to Linux.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/21/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait till the Unions hear about t his.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/21/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Analog story 82 or hereabout.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/21/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  " Wait till the Unions hear about this."

UAW

United Automated Workers union. /sarc off
Posted by: Warthog || 02/21/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#8  My operating system is sub-contracted.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/21/2017 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  to offset the loss of jobs done by humans

Wonder why Bill didn't propose a salary import labor tax when he was sponsoring the H1B program?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2017 16:23 Comments || Top||

#10  The most dangerous aspect of robots progressivism is logical thinking.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 02/21/2017 17:47 Comments || Top||

#11  H1B would work a lot better if a fixed number were sold to the highest bidders.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/21/2017 18:18 Comments || Top||

#12  And bricks should not pay taxes?
Posted by: Phaper Crugum8267 || 02/21/2017 22:23 Comments || Top||



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