Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea

TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should, because they are the ones who will be making the decisions.

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  • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until enough of us say that we don’t care what they think, and we demand better.

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    • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So unionization?

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      • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. That’s certainly one of the best ways.

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      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unions are tragically toothless when the federal government can just decide a planned strike is illegal.

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    • sock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yea! lets hope really hard and politicians might start taking hope as bribes for legislature

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bill Gates isn’t making the decisions anymore and hasn’t been for decades now

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    • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He still has more decision making power than anyone I’ve ever met and probably ever will meet.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How fuckin high are you to forget how much power comes from being a billionaire?

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      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        wdym? He only gets one vote

        /s

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  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And their decisions equate to: how can we employ the fewest number of people with the least benefits and make the most profit off what we’re selling?

    But definitely don’t consider that under- or unemployed people don’t have the money to spend on making those profits happen.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Companies would automate and save on employees, making people poor. Automation only makes sense if basic universal income is applied

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  • Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “””end goal””” would be people working half the time, earning half the money, and stuff costing half as much to make and half as much to purchase.

    The issue is we have to force them to translate the manufacturing cost decrease in a price decrease, or it’s never going to happen.

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  • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A reduction in work hours is also a step forward until UBI is instated. If I make the same amount doing 4 or even 3 days of work in a week, while automation does the rest, that works for me. The idea is that people need to work less and make the same if not more. UBI or a reduction in work hours are both good paths forward. UBI being the ultimate goal.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If people are that poor they will just deautomate the machines in protest until UBI happens.

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    • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People don’t have that kind of power. Especially poor people.

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      • isles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A person doesn’t, but people certainly do. And a small number can do a surprising amount if they’re coordinated enough.

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    • Bluehat@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The companies will decide the level of automation

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• metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t care what he thinks, but I care that he has a platform that others in his class listen to and may respect. It’s not a position you hear often from those with a lot of wealth. I’m ok with progress coming from any direction, even if it’s self-serving in some form, and I do think it’s self-serving.

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