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

• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good luck convincing companies to change anything that won’t make them more money. I think the only way it can happen is with UBI, hopefully funded by the hoarded assets of the few biggest companies and billionaires where all the money is getting accumulated.

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  • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean the people who don’t think healthcare should be a right also would not be down with UBI? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho

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  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “machines can make all the food and stuff”

    Don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have maintainence and repair robots as well, so what manufacturing employees?

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There will, for all of the foreseeable future, be a human element in every manufacturing or farming process.

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      • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly, and it shouldn’t be hard to find someone willing to do that job for 3 days a week.

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      • Xerxos@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That really depends on weather we can create AGI or not. Might come sonner than you think.

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