{"id":119443,"date":"2026-07-06T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/bill-gates-tricked-us-into-desk-jobs-it-wasnt-the-vision-says-perplexity-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:35:50","slug":"bill-gates-tricked-us-into-desk-jobs-it-wasnt-the-vision-says-perplexity-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/bill-gates-tricked-us-into-desk-jobs-it-wasnt-the-vision-says-perplexity-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates \u2018tricked\u2019 US into desk jobs? \u2018It wasn\u2019t the vision\u2019 says Perplexity CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience that Microsoft intentionally engineered the modern 9-to-5 office worker as a business strategy.  He argued that Bill Gates&#8217; vision was to place a PC on every desk, making people dependent on Microsoft software for employment. This approach, focused on selling software rather than design, trained generations to use programs like Word and Excel, ensuring a continuous profit cycle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience that Microsoft intentionally engineered the modern 9-to-5 office worker as a business strategy. He argued that Bill Gates&#8217; vision was to place a PC on every desk, making people dependent on Microsoft software for employment. This approach, focused on selling software rather than design,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/bill-gates-tricked-us-into-desk-jobs-it-wasnt-the-vision-says-perplexity-ceo\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Gates \u2018tricked\u2019 US into desk jobs? \u2018It wasn\u2019t the vision\u2019 says Perplexity CEO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":119444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}