Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea::“A society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Bill Gates said.

  • @Earthwormjim91
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    -121 year ago

    Sure. Give the wealthy and powerful ownership over literally everything in the world and as long as you follow the rules you can get your survival allowance. Shit maybe even some entertainment if you’re really good.

    Dumbest fucking take I have ever heard.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      But that’s how things are now… We work 5–7 days a week for the wealthy and powerful to have more ownership, while getting a survival allowance in exchange.

      • @Earthwormjim91
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        -121 year ago

        Maybe have a skill worth something then? Wild concept.

        • Ech
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          71 year ago

          So your “solution” to oligarchs owning everything is…sell ourselves to them?

          • @Earthwormjim91
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            -81 year ago

            The parent comment was about the current system, where labor produces everything. If your labor can be easily replaced, your labor isn’t that valuable and you won’t be compensated well for your labor. If your labor can’t be replaced easily, it is valuable and you will be compensated well.

            That’s pretty much the opposite of this fictional future dystopia where there is no labor at all and everything is produced by automation. In that world, you as an individual have no value at all. You’re just a leech. There won’t be any innovation, because that’s driven by labor which doesn’t exist in this scenario.

            • @[email protected]
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              81 year ago

              0 forced labor doesn’t mean that humans stop doing things. We are a species which psychologically have a need for something meaningful to do, it’s just that our personal resources are spent after all the meaningless stuff we have to do for the ones in power.

            • Flying Squid
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              41 year ago

              If we don’t maintain the institution of slavery, how will we have any innovation?!

        • Flying Squid
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          21 year ago

          If we’re going to be basing pay on “skills” that are “worth something,” CEOs should be getting minimum wage.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Working 0 days doesn’t imply we can’t collectively own things. 20% of Norway’s population democratically own their houses (housing coops) and like 90% of the Finnish population are member/democratic owners of consumer coops (Walmart grocery stores). Neither of these are workers of the respective coops they’re members of.

      • @Earthwormjim91
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        -71 year ago

        The overlap between the kind of people wanting to do 0 work and the kind of people willing to actually physically fight for it is virtually nonexistent.

        Who is going to enforce communal ownership of the means of production and all products in the economy when those in charge decide they should reap the benefits of managing that? It certainly isn’t going to be the lazy asses who don’t even want to work literally one day a week.