This is what I mention when I'm covertly pushing "radical" ideas such as 4 day work weeks. We have all of these technological advancements - Why can't the workers see some of those benefits instead of them being funneled to the top in the form of extra profits?
The machine must be fed.
The goal was never leisure. The goal was always profit. And so we feed the profit machine, and when we run out of resources, we'll start throwing in sacrifices.
Because the machine must be fed.
If chatGPT was marketed towards workers filing reports for idiot bosses that won’t know the difference it would have been made illegal within the month
Executive bonuses
Stop pushing the idea of four day work weeks. Begin promoting the idea of three day weekends.
I bet you'll start getting different responses.
Fuck that. 4 day weekends.
You should focus more on the orgies and figs.
Going to take this into account... I may have been approaching this the wrong way
Because the Greeks you hear about were the aristocracy. You don't hear how some estimates of the population breakdown were more than 80%-90% slaves.
Just like how you hear of the 300 Spartans, but not the several thousand Thebians, most of whom were slaves, who also defended the pass.
The machines were to replace the slaves.
You mean to become the slaves. Viva la Robo-lution!
cough helots cough
Not to mention all the thespians
To be fair 1/3 of women don't die in childbirth, 1/2 of children don't die before they are ten, we have weed and booze they could never have dreamed of, freaken chocolate and aspirin, and you are highly unlikely to become a sex slave. It was paradise for a very small fraction of the population and rape/slavery/castration for the rest.
Still I could go for an orgy and some figs if anyone is in the mood.
But I'm still castrated and want to be a sex slave uwu
The Ancient Greeks weren't actively trying to turn the strawberries in your fridge into a SaaS subscription.
I am from now on referring to local produce clubs as "Strawberries As A Service". Thank you.
…and then ordering their slaves to bring them another flask of wine
Wait, weren't machines supposed to be our slaves?
That's actually exactly why it took the Romans so long to technologically advance. "The slaves do the job well enough".
The idea of water powered mills and general aqueducts were mind-blowing to them and took a while to catch on. It seemed utterly unfathomable when everyone relied so much on slaves
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When I went freelance, it was hard not having a boss at first, now I'm totally into it. It took around a year for me to get everything to where I felt good about it. I think a lot of people don't realize that the uncomfortable feeling of not having a boss usually doesn't last forever. The people who liked working from home probably get it. We are taught to have bosses from a very early age.
Not having a more senior person to go to when you get stuck could be a problem.
I always have Mr. Stackoverflow as my senior person.
That is, until he slaps me in the face and tells me my questions are always repeated.
And still half of us can't even afford figs
*probably way more than half
And there are five of us who can afford figs for everyone forever, but decided to use that money to lure underaged teens for orgy outside in some secluded islands.
I mean the rich people are eating figs, on their yachts, on their way to their winter home, to go skiing with their family.
Yeah..
But what about the orgies?
Just like any other party, host it yourself
welcome to crapitalism
I mean, precisely because of that people indeed now do have fig orgies outside. Just don't count workers as people.
We invented the idea of currency and that ruined everything. Until we invent a replicator we are stuck working.
To be fair it’s like 30 degrees outside so the orgy might need to be postponed
It's just a bit warm, have the orgy in the shade
That's what bath houses are for!
WE BUILT THIS CITY
WE BUILT THIS CITY
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON GRIM AND TOLL.
Maybe we just found out that figs are kinda mid.
Fig newtons however
capitalism, my comrade.
They also had slaves to do the manual work 😬
I use.my machine that can do the work of 100 people to make shitty jokes online.
Okay I like my work, can I just do that instead of orgies?
What work do you do that's better than orgies?
It’s nothing special I am just a nerd
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