Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced by Software

Re:Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon ... by nashashmi on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:45PM (#8804627)

OP means to say that all work should be valued equally. Because all work is precious.

But then again, I have found that earnings usually commensurates intelligence and efficiency. A highly intelligent individual gets disproportionately more money than his counterparts because he is smarter than the median intelligence in the industry.

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Re:Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon ... by clarky07 on Saturday December 27, 2014 @08:58PM (#8804833)

while i'm not sure i agree that all work should be valued equally, that would be more reasonable than what a basic income implies. a basic income means you get it whether you work or not, and that is the part that I find undesirable.

that being said the problem with valuing all work the same is that people's definitions of what work has any value at all will be different. it's much easier if the work actually has to have value, i.e. someone willing to pay for it.

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Re:Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon ... by dllthomas on Saturday December 27, 2014 @09:14PM (#8804882)

To be clear, a basic income implies you get the stipend regardless. That doesn't mean you don't get more if you work.

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Re:Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon ... by tluyben2 on Saturday December 27, 2014 @11:34PM (#8805236)

This is HN and on HN most have brains; that is less common outside HN. So let's say you have an <

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Re:Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon ... by tluyben2 on Sunday December 28, 2014 @08:25AM (#8806198)

Wow.. This was cut off and not editable... What mobile client for iOS is good as there was a whole story here in the client i'm using and it just posted this :(

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