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.
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.