Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea
randon31415@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A 3-day work week would give rise to doing 2 non-concurrent jobs, or a six day work week.
I mean, I could see the benefits - don’t like one of your jobs? Quit one, it isn’t loosing your whole paycheck. Of course, there are weird structural problems like getting scheduled for those 3 days and random times throughout the week making it really a 7-day job with only 3-days of work, and the whole “you can only work 19.95 hrs and if you work more, then we are required to give you health insurance, so you can’t work more than that.”
somenonewho@feddit.de 10 months ago
What? How broken are we all that you first thought is “Nice then I can work two jobs” The only way this really works if they pay living wages for 3 day work weeks. And I know they aren’t even paying those now for 5-6 days but this is a point we have to insist on and make them do it. Workers have managed to enforce a 8 hour work day a long time ago. We need to remember our strength and fight for better conditions.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We are very broken. Rather than improving, the working conditions of most people are declining, and pay isn’t keeping up with living costs.
I believe at some point people won’t take it, but right now I wouldn’t be surprised if people took two job rather than enjoy their free time. Many already do, because they need to.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
this is more about an US problem, 10 years without salary adjusts,a and the shit house market, to be fair the house marked is a problem in other countries, like canada, but not the pay check, i’m not trying to start a fight or just saying USA bad, just showing that needing two jobs to live isn’t the norm, and you’ll as a USA citizens need to see that and starting demanding for better pay, and fix the issues of your countries, if other less rich countries can do that why USA can’t, please be safe
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not american. This is not an US-only problem, this is a problem of our wider economic system and corporate influence. Even countries that used to have better conditions are increasingly pressured to exploit their people in the same way.
mob@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
That’s a long sentence