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 agoBut 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.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe have a skill worth something then? Wild concept.
ech@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So your “solution” to oligarchs owning everything is…sell ourselves to them?
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 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.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 10 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If we don’t maintain the institution of slavery, how will we have any innovation?!
thisfro@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
A skill worth to them?
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Uh yeah. Like literally all of human history, from the beginning of civilization and will likely last until our extinction.
thisfro@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Source?
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.