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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.