• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    4 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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    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!?

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    i read this as: nobody will be “allowed” a long enough work week to qualify for any benefits.

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    The late-stage capitalist system is structurally incompatible with advanced AI. If you trade your time/labor for money, and are now required to compete against advanced automated systems, you will always lose.

    “could allow” yea… 😂 Who “could allow” exactly?

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    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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      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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    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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    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

  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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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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      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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    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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      Which I’ll give him, sounds awesome, just not with a bunch of rich cunts at the helm. It would be great if working was a choice, something you did because you find joy in doing it, like art, or masturbation. That will never happen as long as there’s an owning class who stand to gain as much as a penny from exploitation of the people.