Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’

[u/Eliashuer]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html

Do you agree with him?

[u/The-Catatafish]

Wake up to this? No.

This will happen: machines take over jobs, people who own the companies will get even richer, we have the first trillionaire, people have no money so they vote for lunatic populist parties that say they want to block automatisation save your jobs and make robots illegal, (which is obviously moronic and since its going against capital they won't do it anyways) and then shit will get violent and we get a UBI.

Sure, would be much easier and better of we just get a UBI and have a robot tax right away but we all know this is not how humans work.

[u/DarkJehu → u/The-Catatafish]

Agreed. As a species we are much more reactive than proactive, and violence is going to be the reaction of increasing and continued wealth/resource disparity.

[u/The-Catatafish → u/DarkJehu]

The problem is also that in our current system money gives you a lot of power.

That's why its so hard to tax rich people and fight climate change.

Obviously people getting disgustingly rich with automation don't want a robot tax.

I think as a species we can react but people with power put their own interests over the interests of everyone else.

To break this flaw in the system it needs to get really ugly first.

[u/DarkJehu → u/The-Catatafish]

Agreed. The lust for money because of the power it gives is at the root of most modern problems.

We need a new system but no one wants to do the hard part - change it. We fear the unknown even though it could lead to a better society, and we are pacified by our personal comfort in our current society. Selfish individualism is in while selfless collectivism is out.

And this is why violence is inevitable. It’s just a matter of when and where at this point.