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[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago

Oh great, now they expect us to work in our sleep.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

I dunno, being able to get my 8 hours of work in AND get a full nights' sleep at the same time, leaving 16 hours for leisure sounds awesome to me!

At least that's how I'm choosing to believe this will play out, for the sake of my sanity.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

You mean 8hrs of sleep work and 8hrs of awake work. Paid only for the awake work

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Do you think you'll feel rested if you were dreamworking on TPS reports all night?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I mean, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't give it a try, assuming it replaced 8 hours of awake work.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sleep is one of the few respites from the drudgery and harshness of this world. In the offchance it can actually be hijacked for more labor, do not let it be stolen.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oh I'm right there with you, if I can get paid to sleep work, and not have to work while awake, and be rested when I wake up after my shift, I'd be all for it. But that just sounds way too good to be true.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I'd rather work 8 hours awake and have the lucid dreaming just add to my leisure time tbh. Seems a waste to unlock the dreamworld just to be office drones in it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What kind of work lets you get away with zero social communication and interaction for the entirety of 8 hours a day? Even in the "coding" example, there is a fair bit of collaboration in software development.

Even assuming this kind of job exists, your corporate overlords will push for mandatory 8hr day work + 8hr sleep work and only pay you 4 hours for it.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Quiet, peasant, and get to dreamwork. Shareholder value isn't going to increase on its own.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Originally in The Matrix people were the CPU/GPU in the robots system, not the batteries.

But WB didn't think anyone knew what those were in 1999

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Taking advantage of the unique aspects of organic processing would have made way more sense than our convoluted and comparatively inefficient, especially in context, power output. Also closes the loop, at least somewhat, on "why didn't they make people vegetables."

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Oh god, that sounds so much better than the battery idea. But yeah I could totally see regular audiences not being able to understand that. Morpheus really succinctly summed up his argument when he just pulled out a AA battery in that scene. Such a good movie moment.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If any coworkers appear in my dreams, I'll personally see to it that shit gets real weird.

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