I feel like if unions could actually get us a 4 day work week, they might have done it sometime in the past 100 years. 🤷🏻♂️
If AI could lead to a 4 day work week, it would lead to a 0 day work week.
As we all know, technology that speeds up work has always resulted in more relaxation time for the workers, starting with the cotton gin.
Tech layoffs gonna give us all days off.
Do you remember that GMO were supposed to end hunger in Africa and computers were supposed to lead to a 4 days week already ?
Man, if only we had some statistical evidence from, say, the entire last century about what capital does with the benefits of increased productivity
There has been so much tech made in the past that would make it possible for people to work half the hours and produce the same amount but it's only used to work the same hours and produce more than needed, AI won't be any different
It leads to 7 days of scrounging for money.
This is a conversation I wish we'd see a lot more of. The only thing wrong with technology eliminating jobs is that we've structured our economy to require almost everyone to *have* a job on pain of starvation and homelessness.
The idea that any C-suite member would look at a 20% increase in productivity and say "take that day off" instead of "we can get rid of 20% of our workforce" is ludicrous.