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[–] 88 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have always said, since the dawn of modern computing, we've been becoming more efficient and require less hours. If anything, we could work 3x 6 hour days already even without AI.

It used to take days for insurance quotes, buying a car (financing), and many other technical tasks... Now, everything is so instant. But the workload keeps increasing to keep us poors busy.

Jeff Bezos saying this, is fucking dumb, because he's just trying to sell us AI in the idea we'll work less. BS. Even if we did work less, how does that make households survive on 1 income? So fucking full of shit, all billionaires. Detached from reality.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 days ago

    It's almost as if 5 days is the most sustainable amount of work you can consistently squeeze out of someone and the prices will always rise to ensure it will take that amount or more to survive. 🤔

    Sounds like a rigged game on a treadmill to me.

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    [–] 53 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    This is exactly what will happen. If you can do your work in half the time, you'll just get more work. Simple as that.

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    Fuck off! The industrial revolution should have given us 4 day workweeks decades ago. But, we have been so propagandized and called lazy if we don't work until we are dead, that people forgot that life is not about the job.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    It's about positioning yourself for the next job. Just keep your head down and work harder, then things will be get better.

    If you work hard your whole life and it still doesn't come, you will be reincarnated to someone with a better socioeconomic standing bases on a formula of how many sick days you use and the stock performance of your company.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Worker's rights must be fought for with sweat, tears and blood. They are historically not handed down by billionaires, not once ever.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Bezos stepped away from Amazon, so it's easy for him to say this now to sound like he cares, meanwhile Elon said his workers need to be there no less than 40 hours a week in office. Which is coded speak for "you live here now"

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  • Everyone getting paid for 3 days only is what he means

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Fucking liar, fuck you and your ill gotten wealth

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    [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    It will be 25 hours. You'll get paid for 25 hours, and it will be 5 hours per day for five days. That's a "3-day work week".

    But, since it's part-time legally, no healthcare, and no paid time off, because you "only work a 3-day week."

    Fuck this billionaire, and all the rest. No one would miss them if they disappeared, and worse, they're leeches on our society. We'd all be much better off without them.

    Stop buying crap from Amazon, what the hell are you doing!?

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    [–] 18 points 5 days ago

    He's already given thousands of his employees 0 day work weeks in favor of AI.

    Maybe he's eyeing the fast food strategy of keeping hours under the requirement to provide health insurance.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    That's a really effective way of putting it honestly

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Bezos wasn't necessarily lying. You have to look at it from his perspective... you see, he doesn't see the rest of us as people. He and his billionaire class plan on working 3 days a week.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    Bezos is right. 100%.

    We could have that with AI. But oligarch trash like him will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

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    [–] 13 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    Yeah this stuff is rage bait. If workers ever get 3 day work week, they will simply get half their salary as well.

    For most people you can't pay your bills with half your salary.

    I'm getting tired of seeing tech make everything worse for human beings. It was not the idea from the start. This is because big tech has become as powerful as entire countries. And their culture is about max profits, of course.

    All of this was predicted in many books and scifi movies but still we are unable to stop this development.

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    [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    i read this as: nobody will be "allowed" a long enough work week to qualify for any benefits.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    36 hours, 12 hour shifts, no breaks, and still not a full 40 to qualify for full-time benefits.

    That’s what he’d do.

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    He means only one person per family, on average, will be able to find a job.

    And those who do, will only be able to find a part time job that schedules them 3 days at most to not risk triggering overtime or benefits thresholds.

    Its a monkey's paw. That's why bezos' head looks like that and why he parts his yacht in a volcano shaped like a skull

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    [–] 12 points 5 days ago

    Bullshit. Capitalist rat-race culture will never normalize this. You'll just end up managing 33 different AIs for 16h a day and barely paying rent and you know it.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    Funny..a billionaire says...
    These people don't need to say anything, so IF they do, I get suspicious. Just to save time I assume they are lying to try to manipulate the general public.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    Him paying just a little bit of taxes could give Americans a 3-day workweek.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    So now you can easily take on 4 jobs to make rent

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Mif there is ever going to be a chance of that, the bare minimum will be a wealth tax. Tax the principle wealth of billionaires. Not gains, not unrealized gains. The principle wealth.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago

    All we need is AI and a guillotine. Honestly, just the guillotine would probably get us a 3 day work week.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    This man needs a guillotine outside his house 24/7 Musk, Ellison and that cunt that runs Nestle need the same guillotine outside their houses too

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    Sweet words that hide the true meaning; they want the LLMs to be advanced enough to get rid of most of us.

    Good thing they can’t, because LLMs aren’t a miraculous technology at all.

    Still, it doesn’t hurt to keep these lunatics in check.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago*

    So start it up, Jeff. Hire more people to do less work. Don't need ai, or automation, or industrialisation, or any of that for the wealthy to share their largess. It's all technically possible right now or a hundred years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Man I love Gianmarco Soresi. ❤️

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago*

    You silly proles. You misunderstood. Bezos 100% means what he said. But he was talking about people. He just doesn't see his employees (or you) as people.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    "It COULD, but we can't ACTUALLY do that because we're the job creators who are saving humanity from destruction by keeping all the money."

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Bezoa was on Epstein island. Release the files, put him in ja and seize his money.

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    [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    This is a fairy tale told by a psychopath so you let him steal more.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Even though amazon work situation sounds like slavery with extra step, there are still lots of people willing to work there regardless because they got little choice in this dystopia , sigh.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago*

    Beelzebezos

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Sure it could. But people like Bezos won’t allow it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    The people working may have 3 day weeks, but they'll get paid for 3 day weeks, and 50% of the population will have 0 day weeks because they'll be unemployed.

    He's basically saying that we won't have a need for most full-time positions in the future. Just someone to replace the ink/toner, lubricate a few moving parts, update some software, replace some worn parts, etc.

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    [–] 4 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    Automation makes wealth. The problem with automation is that billionares steal the gains from everyone else. The problem with AI is that it automates very little and is wasteful.

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