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

• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If we don’t maintain the institution of slavery, how will we have any innovation?!

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