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@javisrike: bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain.

In a social media post, user @javisrike criticized Bill Gates for advocating taxes on AI, arguing that Gates built Microsoft by making computation cheaper and harder for government to restrain, but now as a billionaire he supports taxing the next wave of computation, calling it 'classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics.' Another user, @lemonthymeshortbread, echoed the sentiment, noting Gates did not advocate preserving jobs for typists, draftsmen, typesetters, and clerks during Microsoft's earlier digital revolution.

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@javisrike: bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain.
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bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. now that he's a billionaire no longer dependent on the free market for his own success he's discovered the virtues of taxing the next wave of computation. 1995 gates would have called it a tax on innovation. classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics.

@lemonthymeshortbreadI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.

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enter to follow: These were exactly my thoughts reading about how he thinks we should “preserve” some jobs for people; I don’t remember him being an advocate of preserving the jobs of typists, draftsman, typesetters, and other clerks when his company was leading a prior digital revolution…

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