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

boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe have a skill worth something then? Wild concept.

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      • ech@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • thisfro@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A skill worth to them?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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