More like - Full weeks jobs paid only for two day.
That would mean CEOs would share the benefits of automation with employees. They won’t. They’ll cut 60% of staff and work that 40% full time or more.
They’ll work only 20% staff on hefty overtime till breakdown.
Spot on.
They’ll just fill the other 3 days with more work. Because you have all that extra time now.
and nobody but 10 white guys would be able to afford food
What if we just ate those 10 white guys?
10 white guys
NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR
Ah yes only rich white guys are the problem and billionaires with other skin color are all benevolent.
Genuinely asking because I can’t think of any what billionaires aren’t white?
The main point is that we shouldn’t let race divide us in a class war.
Googles CEO is Indian and a Billionaire.
Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) has almost a billion dollars.
The family that owns Samsung and basically run the South Korean economy.
edit: Also Masayoshi Son who has invested heavily in OpenAI with his Softbank Vision Fund
and Rhianna, Oprah, and Selena Gomez to name a few celebrities.
Selena is a billionaire? Damn
White billionaires are the majority, but there’s really no lack of non-white ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires
Come now, you can be a subsistence tech worker!
If they didn’t want to suffer the lack of necessities, they could have learned to trillionaire.
The formerly richest man on the planet believes capitalism will pass the benefits of AI to all of us.
Ha ha
I remember when Democrats had almost everyone convinced that he was an example of a good billionaire.
He just wants to trickle on us!
How are they so fucking dumb?
They seek shelter in the belief to be benevolent, for otherwise they would see themselves as the evil they are.
The older they get, to more they realize that their money won’t save them. They want to be immortal, they want to have a legacy, they want to be remembered kindly.
Of course there’s also some who know they’re evil and are OK with it. But even those are not immune from seeking something… higher. See Thiel’s antics with the antichrist.
How are these people so fucking out of touch? Or are they just lying?
2 options,
A) they are intentionally making shit up because it makes them rich.
B) investors prop up delusional idiots who say shit like that for profit
not much difference in either case
With Two-Day or even less pay. Aka. certain death.
Don’t worry, you’ll have 4 different jobs!
Work 2 days per job, with overlap, part time hours, no benefits, no breaks, no time for revolutions
That last part is key
2-day work week, minimum wage $9.50/hr
You’ll also receive two days of pay per week.
Yes. Two days per job, three jobs per week to barely survive.
Those better be 2 12’s per job, big guy. Also full time is still defined at 35 a week
It’ll be really shitty jobs, too… And the grand majority will only last as long as it takes to roll out the cheap robotics.
They’re going to replace nearly everyone. It’s so goddamn obvious. First, the good jobs will be taken, though. We’re there now. Right now.
God, he’s such a fucking idiot.
I think you mean “God, 27% of his wealth is still invested in a company that is all in on AI and he needs to offload it before the bubble pops”. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-most-48-billion-190902092.html
Fair point.
it make sense why sam altman and him convenient said the same thing at the same time.
Hundreds of years ago we toiled in fields for 8+hrs to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads… since then, with all the technology and advancements to make our lives easier, we still work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads… I doubt his claims
With all this extra work, we are not only bleeding ourselves dry but also destroying our environment just to increase stock prices
Yes, but you see, we now have billionaires, and soon trillionaires, while we still have to work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads. So… progress.
Bill Gates is Trump’s little bitch. He doesn’t care about any of us any more than Elon or Trump himself.
In an ideal world, yes. Under Capitalism, no.
AI will replace Jobs
Could be, but I thought Jobs has died?
that’s why they want to replace him with AI built from everything he ever said
Golly my sister is trying to vibe code an ai agent to basically do the same thing. I don’t want to laugh in her face but I think its one of her dumbest ideas, she is kinda addicted AI bots. And she spiraling down a rabbit hole
Keyes believed we’d have a 15 hour week by now. These things are not predictable
My understanding is that Keynes failed to account for the growth in consumerism. Essentially we could probably have a 15 hour work week but we wouldn’t have shiny smartphones.
I get really sick of rich people promising their latest product will mean 4/3/2 day working weeks, and when others parrot this nonsense I just despair.
Leaving aside the dispute over “AI” and it’s actual effect on efficiency…
If efficiency savings were all that was needed we would already be there. There’s been hundreds of such advances. But all that happens is the wealthy get more wealth. They will always find work for us in those “saved days”, and will increase our costs until we have to work those days to survive.
Exactly. A reduced work week is a social policy, meaning we’ll only achieve it through focused political action.
But sadly there’s no labor party in the US, and the parties we do have are both aggressively hostile to any sort of workplace reforms, so… yeah
richard branson was the first guy to say it, then the other started parroting the meaningless drivel.
