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

• ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure but they’re not gonna want to do it as a salaried employee, because the random overtime required will be more valuable.

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    • Xerxos@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If we invent AGI all bets are off for everything though. That’s a discovery on par with fire or the wheel.

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