[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.
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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?
[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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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.
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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.
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