https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/billionaire-bill-gates-two-day-workweek-ai-replacing-humans/
Say hello to a 5-day weekend: Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says artificial intelligence may soon automate almost everything—and with it, usher in a 2-day work week in less than a decade.
The capitalist class, who fully control the means of production, seek to further gut their variable costs of buisness by rendering obsolete the labor of as much of humanity as possible.
By as much of humanity as possible, my measured guess is that the plot is to get fully automate the bullshit jobs, and as much of the logistics network as possible, plunge the service, hospitality, and other labor-intensive sectors into hypercompetative hell as the reserve army of labor swells by the millions.
Long story short, the nonessential pmc labor aristocracy will be thoroughly liquidated and the wider working class will face intensifying conditions that will bring them closer to the standard of living that the global south slaves away in.
If you are not a fan of the 9-to-5 weekly grind, there’s good news: Bill Gates is predicting that in just 10 years, humans might just work two days out of the week—and it’s all thanks to AI.
Load of shit. Every capitalist industrial revolution plunges sections of the working class into poverty as their labor becomes unnecessary for production.
At the current pace of innovation, the Microsoft co-founder predicts that humans will no longer be needed “for most things,” and so a rethinking of the workplace will soon be in order.
"Most things" being shit the speak-and-spell bots can do easily. Someone's still gotta stock the shelves, load cargo containers, and make brunch for the shitlibs
“What will jobs be like? Should we just work like 2 or 3 days a week?” the billionaire told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
Poverty laws and police raids
This is not the first time the billionaire alluded to a shortening of the workweek. In 2023, when ChatGPT was still in its infancy, Gates said society might “eventually” get to a scenario where working three days a week is the norm—and the world will have to figure out what to do with more leisure time.
Their world, not our world. Not that they work in the first place.
“If you zoom out, the purpose of life is not just to do jobs,” he told Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast.
"... while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now.
~ Marx, German ideology.
Only under a socialist and then communist system can the worker truly be liberated so as to pursue the craft they desire. Anything else that presents itself as liberation is but simply the exchange of chains disguised as gifts.
A 5-day weekend could boost birth rates and kill burnout
Any workweek reduction is likely music to the ears of many workers who are battling burnout, exhaustion, and disconnect—especially following the pandemic. And there are indications that the shift to a four-day workweek, in particular, is beneficial.
Hey where's that one handy chart about worker productivity vs what they're getting paid. That probably has absolutely nothing to do with this.
One company found that cutting work by one day increased productivity by 24% and cut burnout in half.
Yeah no shit
While the widespread adoption of a shortened worksheet hasn’t caught on yet, the pendulum is moving. For example, Tokyo’s Metropolitan government recently announced a turn to a 4-day workweek—in part to help boost birth rates in Japan.
There's a lot of shit wrong with the Republic of Mitsubishi, but hey, this is one instance you could say they're moving in a more progressive direction when compared to the United corporations of burgerland.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has also expressed his view that AI will make working less of a priority—placing his bet on a three-and-a-half day workweek.
Blow it out your ass, Jamie.
However, there are no indications that his company is heading in that direction anytime soon due to the new enforcement of a strict five-day return-to-office policy.
Case and point
The 2 professions likely to be replaced by AI, according to Gates
As AI takes aim at the workplace, Gates admitted there will be professions that see much more change than others. In his conversation with Fallon, he singled out doctors and teachers as two pathways that will experience replacement—but to the benefit of society as a whole.
Ain't no fucking chance you're replacing doctors and teachers with a fucking tickle-me-elmo chatbot. Imagine combining the fucking chatbot that told you to iron your balls to unwrinkle them with the mayo clinic website info and you're more likely to end up worse off than being a medieval folk remedies practitioner. Don't even get me started with the fucking nightmare of letting a fucking chatbot educate the youth holy fucking shit dude
“With AI, over the next decade, (intelligence) will become free, commonplace—great medical advice, great tutoring,” Gates said.
To quote the song "The Gates" by Da Vinci's Notebook (great band by the way.)
" Well, the Gates been a'runnin' ever since that day
Thinks he can hide but he can't get away
When I finally find his little skinny behind
Gonna kick it all over this town-o, town-o, town-o
Finally find his little skinny behind
Gonna kick it all over this town"
To put it mildly.
While he says humans will reserve some jobs—like playing professional baseball, for example—he pictures a world where AI is doing close to everything.
YOU WILL ENTERTAIN THE RULING CLASS, PEASANTS! THAT WILL BE YOUR ONLY PURPOSE! DANCE OR STARVE, YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE!
“There will be some things that we reserve ourselves for, but in terms of making things and moving things and growing food—over time, those will be basically solved problems,” Gates said.
No they fucking won't. Migrant slave labor is used to put food on the table, and thanks to Trump it's gonna be child slave labor soon.
Fucking billionaire demons.
Lol who the fuck is gonna consume shit then with those slave wages? And how much of the earth would you have to burn to make this viable? Lol just lol. Lmao just lmao
Literally the rich.
The rich genuinely think that it’s up to them to do all the consuming to prop up the economy like they aren’t total misers.
the wealthier 5 to 10 percent of the US population already consumes more than half of all economic activity
this is just the tail end of a process where economies in north america and europe are retooled to attend the needs of the wealthy. the real brazilification of the 'first world'.
The problem that any Marxist can point out is that surplus labor is the source of profits. A sharp decrease in the aggregate surplus labor will directly cause a decrease in profits and collapse the domestic economy. It doesn’t matter how much they are able to consume because the abstract logic of capitalism demands an expanding spiral of exploitation.
The only way out of this is through monopoly rent extraction (superexploitation) from the rest of the world, which they might succeed at for a while (and already do to some extent) but it is inherently unsustainable, especially if your domestic working class is threatening mutiny.
There's this phenomenom brazilians like to call 'chicken flight'. Basically, the experience of economic development in much of the Global South is sudden spurts followed by sudden stagnation. Because as you said at one point the material conditions of the economy don't add up. It doesn't matter how much the rich consume when labor can't afford to work for them. So minimal redistribution happens, with the acquiescence of, maybe, half of the capitalist class. The middle class manages to afford some treats here and there. And then its all seized up once again.
Gates probably thinks that capitalism will abolish itself eventually and now he can live as a pseudo-Pharaoh overseeing a nations of worshiper living god type of deal.
Tangential but related thought: In a just world anyone trying to proselytize "effective altruism" would immediately get struck by an orbital rail gun barrage. Nip that shit in the bud.