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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    -126 months ago

    Maybe have a skill worth something then? Wild concept.

    • Ech
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      76 months ago

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

      • @Earthwormjim91
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        -86 months 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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          86 months 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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          46 months ago

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

      • @Earthwormjim91
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        -66 months ago

        Uh yeah. Like literally all of human history, from the beginning of civilization and will likely last until our extinction.

    • Flying Squid
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      26 months ago

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