By dint of regulation and taxation, government has functionally outlawed employing actual people for many tasks. Add to that the destruction of the education system, resulting in a ‘workforce’ as ignorant as a Houston Congresswoman and it becomes a mathematical necessity for businesses to replace as many warm bodies as possible with automation.
Gates believes that the tax codes are going to need to change to encourage companies to hire employees, including, perhaps, eliminating income and payroll taxes altogether. He's also not a fan of raising the minimum wage, fearing that it will discourage employers from hiring workers in the very categories of jobs that are most threatened by automation. He explained: "When people say we should raise the minimum wage. I worry about what that does to job creation ... potentially damping demand in the part of the labor spectrum that I’m most worried about."