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.

  • @Acters
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    201 year ago

    We should stop measuring our productivity in hourly and need to go back to salary well paying positions, or everyone needs to share the costs with UBI instead.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Good luck convincing companies to change anything that won’t make them more money. I think the only way it can happen is with UBI, hopefully funded by the hoarded assets of the few biggest companies and billionaires where all the money is getting accumulated.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        You mean the people who don’t think healthcare should be a right also would not be down with UBI? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.

    • @SCB
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      1 year ago

      Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho - like you’d have 0 manufacturing employees.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        “machines can make all the food and stuff”

        Don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have maintainence and repair robots as well, so what manufacturing employees?

        • @SCB
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          1 year ago

          There will, for all of the foreseeable future, be a human element in every manufacturing or farming process.

          AI can beat replace repeatable behaviors. There will always be someone on-site to address outlier situations.

          • Crit
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            71 year ago

            Sounds like a skilled job for me that ought to be paid then

            • @SCB
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              01 year ago

              The point is salaried workers generally would make less.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Exactly, and it shouldn’t be hard to find someone willing to do that job for 3 days a week.

            • @SCB
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              01 year ago

              Sure but they’re not gonna want to do it as a salaried employee, because the random overtime required will be more valuable.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            That really depends on weather we can create AGI or not. Might come sonner than you think.

            • @SCB
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              51 year ago

              If we invent AGI all bets are off for everything though. That’s a discovery on par with fire or the wheel.