Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea::“A society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Bill Gates said.

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    1 year ago

    We should stop measuring our productivity in hourly and need to go back to salary well paying positions, or everyone needs to share the costs with UBI instead.

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      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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        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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      1 year ago

      Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho - like you’d have 0 manufacturing employees.

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

          AI can beat replace repeatable behaviors. There will always be someone on-site to address outlier situations.

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