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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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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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."

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

Fuck Bill gates

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I love that this headline let's ole Bill sound like a zoned out stoner college freshman.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Until machines get real AI and humanity get fucked up. 🤣🤣

Real talking: I believe what the majority of people need are better payment and wealth redistribution.

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

When I was a child I envisioned fully automated luxury communism driven by robots and AI.

Realizing that wouldn't happen for the dumbest possible reasons as a teen/young adult was immeasurably disappointing

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

Utopia would be one where humans can focus on art and science to advance our race while the mundane work of running a society is all automated. Stuff like this is not enough, but it seems like a step in the right direction where income remains the same to maintain a standard of living while still producing the same output

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