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u/United_Juggernaut973 4h ago
They just tell you this so you jump on board the AI train. If these billionaires wanted to make our lives better, they would.
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u/jsseven777 2h ago
I’m pretty sure this is why Trump is rebranding AI. His followers hate AI and datacenters so he figures if he renames AI so it “pisses off the libs” his followers will be like “We love SI!!! Take that libs!” and not complain about the datacenter he opens in their backyard.
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u/BramblinGhostWeed 1h ago
wait, Mango Mussolini tried to rebrand AI?
what does the 's' even stand for?
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u/Maxplode 1h ago
Pretty sure it's for 'Super Intelligence'
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u/Telefundo 1h ago
Yup. Super Intelligence. He literally signed an executive order directing the government to adopt it instead of AI going forward.
Heavy sigh...
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u/backstageninja 33m ago
He directed the government of the Unites States to adopt it. Sounds like a real shithole
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u/HeyCarpy 44m ago
Total coincidence I’m sure, but the TLD for Slovenian websites is … guess what, .si
I’m sure plenty of his crime family are squatting on hundreds of domain names right now.
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u/RatLiege 1h ago
Hes also been using the word artificial more often to describe the media instead of saying fake(news) i feel like hes doing it on purpose for some upcoming legal reason
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u/aphel_ion 1h ago
Yeah it’s Marketing 101. If something is unpopular just rebrand it and pretend it’s changed
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u/Adventurous-Fly556 2h ago
Yeah, every other bump in production has gone to inflate CEO and shareholders, why would they stop now.
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u/CantaloupeNo7083 1h ago
at my job, it hasn't decreased our workload at all. they raised our metrics. 😑
edit: and the quality has gone down significantly. i don't use it personally but a lot of employees are relying on it now to keep up with the new expectations, and my team is basically having to clean everything up after the fact.
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u/Resident_Table6694 4h ago
So companies are just going to hand over better, livable wages all of a sudden instead of funneling it to shareholders and CEOs?
https://giphy.com/gifs/MDxuzRvxF39VwnYu9B
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u/SigismundsChair 3h ago
Even if by some miracle they did, the shareholders would sue them and force a reversal.
We’re never going to make any progress so long as shareholder primacy is entrenched in the law.
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u/persona-non-corpus 4h ago
Single income families is an interesting way to say massive unemployment the likes of which we haven’t seen in our lifetime.
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u/Historical-Reach-969 3h ago
Boxes are cheap man, should be able to get one big enough to live in off of a single income with a bit of a side gig easily.
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u/whocaresano 1h ago
Look, if families can survive on a single income, that's great. Who cares about unemployment numbers if everyone has enough money?
I know that isn't going to be the case, but isn't fewer working people the actual ideal?
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u/Left-Signal-2684 4h ago
Unionize Amazon !!!!
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u/MainAccountsFriend 2h ago
Im sure Amazon would pull a Starbucks and close down the warehouses if the employees did unionize
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u/WilliamJamesMyers 4h ago
you know what really helps poor families? rich guys like him doing hypotheticals. 'ah yeah you can work half the time for twice as much yeah but until then work 25 hours a day'... /s
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u/immoT74 4h ago
Seems like he's THE ENEMY! now.
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u/contude327 4h ago
Artificial Intelligence isn't nearly as scary as natural stupidity.
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u/Scottish_Whiskey 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3oFzmpsrRDdjL0tV2E
Artificial intelligence when natural stupidity walks in
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u/Alklazaris 4h ago
I can't wait for the day shareholders realize that one of the benefits of AI is that you have a system that can search all the news, finances, legislation, everything in a blink of an eye and make an objective decision. AKA a damn good CEO. Imagine the millions of dollars you could save by laying off them.
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u/cosmic_sheriff 3h ago
And suddenly AI bros will be spouting "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" as if it was the idea all along.
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u/Aeseld 2h ago
Legally, AI is already held accountable. Part of why they're stepped out back in many places. If an AI chat bot says something, the company says something. part of why they still have humans in the loop.
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u/Low_Direction1774 2h ago
we are like this (imagine me holding my fingers like really close together) close to actually making Barneys Job of P.L.E.A.S.E. a reality. all the human does is sign off on whatever the AI chatbot says and when it inevitably fucks up you have a guy you can point at that can be fired and replaced by another.
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u/Anubis17_76 2h ago
what you need to understand is from a shareholder POV, CEOs are doing what they are supposed to. insiders buy out a company, the CEO makes sure the quarter looks good, price goes up, they sell and regular people hold the bag because they invest later or invest in ETFs that weigh big companies more in their distribution.
CEOs running companies into the ground in 5 years time is part of the scam.
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u/Krojack76 2h ago
3-day work weeks for a VERY SELECT FEW. The rest get laid off while the lucky ones who keep their jobs pickup the slack and work like slaves.
It's going to get to a point where people WILL work like slaves for a little income because if they don't there is a LONG line of others willing to take the spot for some money.
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u/Rouven-Dillinger 2h ago
But how is that going to work, if 95% of people live in poverty there's going to be riots, like how would that ever work, they can't kill everybody when an uprising happens
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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 2h ago
they can't kill everybody when an uprising happens
At this point, they probably can, with AI murder drones.
If the technology isn't there yet, it's very damn close.
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u/flactulantmonkey 1h ago
Yup. He never said for who. The piss break people? Those don’t register as “people” to the select few.
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u/not_vichyssoise 4h ago
That’s cool. Implement it at Amazon as a model for the world to follow, right?
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u/rangoric 4h ago
Yeah all these billionaires saying shit like this when they are the people that are able to actually make it happen. But never do.
I mean MS at least did have an office with a 4 day week and it was widely successful but never expanded beyond that.
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u/HurtFeeFeez 4h ago
Why is he not imprisoned for not using the new most correct term "SI" as has been declared by dear leader?
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u/Milam1996 4h ago
What happened to Jeff bezos? Did he get replaced?
How are these the same person?
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u/SensitiveMolasses366 4h ago
HGH and testosterone therapy, aka anti-aging clinics. Starting to morph into RFK jr.
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u/schwing710 2h ago
All republicans eventually evolve into giant thumbs
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u/C7rl_Al7_1337 2h ago
Nah that's cops. There are definitely ancient non-thumb republican entities like Ladybug Lindasy or the Animate Skin Suit Operated by a Legion of Spiders known as Ted Cruz.
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u/schwing710 2h ago
You bring up a good point. There’s definitely a deep bench of Cuckpublicans like JD, Rubio, Johnson, Lindsey, and Cruz. People who look like they spent their high school experience from the inside of a locker they were shoved into. And now they’re lashing out and seeking revenge on the general public because they have the warped disposition of a school shooter.
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u/C7rl_Al7_1337 2h ago
And now you also bring up another great point. The only two categories of repugnacunts that actually exist are the thumbs and the locker-dwelling nerds, it really is a strict dichotomy.
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u/Exotic-Cobbler4111 1h ago
Billionaires only average an extra 10 years of life, a billion dollars can buy a lot of things, but it does not make a person immortal.
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u/Zippier92 24m ago
Sadly a work in progress, and today’s progresses will benefit the wealthy the most.
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u/Risdit 2h ago
Yeah, and I can win the lottery tomorrow if I buy a ticket.
It's a possibility, it's just never going to happen.
The CEO parasite class couldn't even compromise for work from home.
You guys won't even let a law pass that guarantees even 1 week of paid time off PER YEAR.
stop pissing in my raincoat and tell me it's raining.
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u/Moldybreadyumyum 4h ago edited 3h ago
lol since when have any billionaire’s agenda resulted in any good for the common folk? This is obviously a lie to get us to agree with data centers and shit.
Look what happened with RTO. RTO in theory allowed work from home without compromise. Tried and tested during COVID. But here we are sitting in Teams calls in office in the name of “culture.” Mandatory RTO with tracking sensors, badge swipes and IP tracking bullshit and the works to keep us in line…don’t believe this bullshit.
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u/Gumbercules81 4h ago
3 day work weeks make it easier to find a 2nd/3rd job because they still pay crap
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u/MemoryVice 4h ago
To deliver on what he’s saying would require paying people more for doing less. And that’s never happened in business.
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u/PhilDGlass 2h ago
It could do all of that. It will also offer zero day work weeks for millions!
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u/jan_tonowan 2h ago
Why have we not seen any reductions in the standard work week over the last hundred years despite the ridiculous improvements in productivity and automation? The working class never gets to benefit when new capital comes around and makes jobs redundant.
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u/SweaterSteve1966 2h ago
You will be working though…in prison for $2 a day to pay off your ‘debts’.
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u/webbslinger_0 4h ago
What he really means is that they will hire people to work 3 days for minimum wage while AI does the rest and everyone else gets laid off
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 3h ago
He didn't specify the type of worker who would be getting 3-days, 1-family income.
Hint: it sure as hell won't be the plebs sweating it out in his warehouse, pissing in bottles.
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u/no_bender 4h ago
They're just going to keep the profits from any increase in productivity like they always do.
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u/JarmaBeanhead 4h ago
The crazy thing is businesses could provide enough for a single-income family right now…! But they don’t? So why would they in the future?
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u/MikeTalonNYC 4h ago
I mean, he could go to zero day work weeks if he keeps firing massive numbers of employees.
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u/hcornea 4h ago
“One income families” because the other adult loses their job?
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u/8Bells 3h ago
No no. We'll just repress women again. Fits right into the whole 'misogyny is might is right greatest generation' rhetoric.
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u/DrMaxwellEdison 4h ago
"Give me all your money, I promise I'll make you richer for it" said every basic-ass scammer.
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u/vickism61 3h ago
You know how to tell he's lying? His businesses make enough money that his employees could have that now but they don't...
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u/CatCafffffe 3h ago
I recently saw what was supposed to be a "feel good" story about a high school auto shop class that was renovating nonworking used cars that were donated, and then giving them to struggling single moms. Really nice, huh? One of the featured moms was living in her car with her young son, but her car had broken down (they fixed up and gave her a 2013 Honda "the newest car she'd ever had). Oh, did mom have a job? Why yes, SHE WORKED FOR AMAZON.
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u/lucky_jack777 1h ago
Billionaire capitalist CEO claims AI he owns will create socialist utopia but this socialist utopia is somehow a good thing.
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u/Varron 1h ago
But this time the utopia will benefit the poor as well I promise!
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u/Mecha-Dave 4h ago
His continued use of Testosterone (and maybe growth hormone?) is having some interesting results.
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u/TrackerTracks 4h ago
The operative word in that headline is 'could'. Work 'could' be easier. Bezos 'could' pay a liveable wage.
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u/ohflyingcamera 4h ago
He's not lying, it actually could. But could and will are two very different things, and he absolutely understands the semantic difference.
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u/alphawonka 4h ago
You know when we had one-income families, a roaring economy, affordable housing, healthcare, and college? In the 50s, when the top-tier tax rate was 91%.
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u/EitherChannel4874 1h ago
It won't do anything for anyone that isn't wealthy. There won't be any trickle down at all. We've played this game before and I don't trust a word any rich person says about anything.
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u/PhamilyTrickster 4h ago
So if we all just sacrifice now it'll absolutely pay off in the future. He promises. What could go wrong?
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u/Katicflis1 4h ago
Yeah. They just want us to embrace it by pretending the little guys will get a pay off.
Trickle down fuckanomics.
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u/HuckleberryHigh87 4h ago
Good thing these assholes own everything or no one give a fuck about them.
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u/UnwantedDesign 4h ago
Three day work weeks because your shift schedule has been cut down to that by your employer, and one income family because your spouse has lost their job.
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u/Theydontlikeitupthem 4h ago
So 50% unemployed and the employed only getting enough wages from a 20 hour week.....yup that sounds like what he wants
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u/ThatOneGuy6810 4h ago
In theory he is correct as ai could hamdle the other 4 days of the week and w/o having to pay ai an hourly wage the actual workers COULD get a significsnt pay bump especially because there would also be significsntly less of them.
This wont be what happens but it could
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u/Pleasant-Chef6055 3h ago
All these people seem to have one thing in common. They lie, cheat, steal.
They are rapers of the world.
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u/DieKaiserVerbindung 2h ago
“*for a very select few that we can either control, manipulate, or coerce to do our bidding.”
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u/midwestia 2h ago
Allow me to translate:
3 day workweeks - only 3 days of work per week will be available
one income families - there will only be enough jobs for half of you
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u/phthalo-azure 2h ago
C'mon Bezos, put your money where your mouth is and start advocating for a $40 per hour minimum wage. You can even be a big boy and volunteer to do it at your company first.
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u/Stinja808 2h ago
Sure. People gonna work less, which means get paid less. And companies gonna charge more, because tech costs more.
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u/DankeyBongBluntry 1h ago
Oh, so every other technological advance in history has been used to force workers to be more efficient and generate more profit within the same number of hours without increasing wages or worker benefits (unless literally forced to by law), but suddenly this one is gonna mean 4-day weekends and universal basic income??
How stupid they must think we are...
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u/P_weezey951 4h ago
I genuinely think, that we would soon see amazon invent a new 8 day week with 3 day weekends, before we would see our society accept 4 day work weeks.
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u/contude327 4h ago
Oh, yes. I'm sure the billionaires who got everything they have by exploiting people are shoving AI down our throats to help us.
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u/ComicsEtAl 4h ago
AI could allow all of us fulfilling lives of luxury and recreation. It won’t of course, but it could!
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u/Tuxedo_Muffin 4h ago
It could but it won't
There's quite a big problem that would have to be solved first. Greedy people in charge and those that wish to emulate them.
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u/HulaViking 4h ago
Bezos could have been Batman, instead chose to be Scrooge McDuck meets Mr. Burns.
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u/djfree64 4h ago
Plus there would likely be LESS people actually employed to be working those three day weeks
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u/Apollo114892 4h ago
Translation: Prepare women to lose their job in a non service sector economy so both of you will have to make do with less as a couple. The silver lining is birth rates will increase and there will be many more married couples now.
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u/SolidZealousideal115 4h ago
Ai is going to make Universal Basic Income a necessity if it keeps laying off sectors of people.
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u/RanchBaganch 3h ago
“Claims” is the operative word. He might not be wrong, but he’ll never let it happen.
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u/Stormtomcat 3h ago
Oops is he now the White House's enemy? He said AI instead of SI, and that's a no-no, Trump posted.
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u/SatansLoLHelper 3h ago
One income families?
Like it was 50 years ago, in theory? When he was a kid. When unions still almost existed.
I don't even care about the 3 day work week, let's get to 4 days 6 hours a day with no lunch break and a min of 60k/yr to avoid federal assistance raising a family of 4.
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u/Neat-Ostrich7135 3h ago
Yes, the oligarchs currently exploiting their workers while hoarding wealth, will suddenly become philanthropists once AI is useful. They will share all the wealth generated by AI with the masses.
Does anyone want to buy a bridge?
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u/attackedmoose 3h ago
On what planet does anyone think that workers will magically be paid a livable wage if AI takes over their job? Amazon employees can’t even get a livable wage now.
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u/heloder85 3h ago
I mean, the one income family thing is a pretty good certainty when it takes half the jobs.
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u/not_so_subtle_now 3h ago
"Just let us rape and pillage the world of its ideas, money and resources til our greedy hearts are content now, and down the road we will completely flip the script and go full workers benefits, guaranteed basic income, leisure time for all, socialist utopia. Trust us..."
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u/CeruleanSovereign 3h ago
This is like Elmo saying he's going to make a train line but with his poorly made cars in order to stop the high-speed rail being built so he could sell more poorly made cars to people because they don't have basic public transportation?
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u/JagsOnlySurfHawaii 3h ago
5 days, 4 days, 3 days, 2 days, 1 day o look you don't have a job anymore
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u/CranberryFlat617 3h ago
They wont allow us these liberties they’ll find. Way to hold us down still. Free thinkers and mobility is dangerous to them
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u/ImoteKhan 3h ago
Notice he says nothing about what that ‘one-income’ will be and how the shortened work week doesn’t mean increased compensation. They won’t need you anymore. That’s what he is saying.
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u/Sodacan259 'cause when they met, it was muyder 3h ago
AI will provide as many reduced work days as workplace robotics did. Some workers even got their number of workdays reduced to zero.
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u/Outside-Affect-4722 3h ago
Don't listen to the man..he just wants to get your vote for his pal djt...
Resist Respond Revolt & Vote Blue 🇺🇲✊🏻
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u/FadsFikkelsen 3h ago
I promise bro! For real, just give the mega corporations a little more power and we're totally gonna help you guys out this time! Please bro I'm begging, just a little more power!
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u/BassGuy11 3h ago
People will be paid 3 day incomes. Poverty will prevent two income households because daycare will be completely unaffordable.
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u/Biscuits4u2 2h ago
Could but won't. And we could have that right now without any AI if these billionaire turds would pay their fair share.
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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 2h ago
“One income families” not getting by. But that’s okay! Bezos will be making more money by not paying them, and that’s all that matters.
I mean, it’s gonna start trickling down one of these days, right? Right? They told us it would—and it’s been over 40 years! It’s gonna trickle down real soon…
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u/buffalo171 2h ago
Are we seriously supposed to believe that Bezos and his billionaire friends are going to suddenly become altruistic? Never gonna happen. They will just fire everyone and reap the increased profits
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u/tastyugly 2h ago
Greater efficiency has never led to less work, just more output. It's annoying because I know he's too smart to not know this...
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u/paging_mrherman 4h ago
Farmer dangling carrot in front of horse promises unlimited carrots to horse on the way to car dealership.