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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So unionization?

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    • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        More unions need to coordinate and actually create threat of a general strike. The UAW ending their contract on May Day and calling for others to do the same actually seems like a pretty good way to leverage power. I don’t think the government can move quick enough to block that kind of collective action.

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  • sock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      wdym? He only gets one vote

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• RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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