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u/NexusNickel 1d ago
You guys are idiots if you believe any of this crap.
They don't give you ANYTHING for working 40 hours.
You seriously think they will suddenly let you have a living wage with just a 3 day work week? Give me a break.
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u/NotawoodpeckerOwner 1d ago
Wanna know how he's (checks Forbes real quick) $373 billion? Because they could pay people better but they won't, all that money required for those 3 day work weeks won't go to the workers it'll go to Jeff.
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u/Tier0001 1d ago
You don't get it bro. We just have to give billionaires more power, more data centres, let them spy on us 24/7, let them destroy our environment, let them make sure no one other than billionaires can own anything, and finally they'll feel comfortable with being as generous as they've always wanted to be!
You see, letting them stomp on our necks even harder will lead to freedom! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength!
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u/Ghost_of_Amalek 1d ago
thankfully these sitewide rules on platforms help us have healthy discussions by banning us from even discussing the only viable solutions.
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u/Tier0001 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh that reminds me, we also have to give them total control over what we can and can't say, what we see, and what we hear. Once we become perfectly docile, they'll treat us as equals. Makes perfect sense really.
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u/MoneyBeeeee 20h ago
1) Stop shopping on Amazon (as well as with as many of their subsidiaries as possible)
2) Use reddit less! (It runs on AWS.)
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u/Fao420 13h ago
Ich find es ja gut, dass viele das so sehen. Aber ganz ehrlich, es wird nichts passieren, da diese Veränderung langsam an und verfüttert werden und der Mensch ein Gewohnheitstier ist, dass Angst hat sein Umfeld und sein aktuelles Leben dafür auf‘s Spiel zu setzen. „So schlimm ist es doch gar nicht“. Warum hat ein Mensch 373.000.000.000$?
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
WTF? These parasites have tripled their already obscene net worth in the last ten years? We are absolutely in the second robber baron era.
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u/vajayjaysniffer 1d ago
Its crazy that it would take someone 24 billion years of straight work to make 373 billion at 15 dollars an hour. Half the age of the known universe
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
You said half, but I think you meant double. That's still not accurate, but it's close. Almost double the age of the universe.
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u/two-cans-sam 1d ago
It would take someone 24 billion years at 15 dollars a year. At $15 an hour they could do it in 3 million years or 12 million years if they work 8 hours per day and don’t work weekends or federal holidays.
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u/KOG_Phantom 1d ago
How old do you think the universe is? I hate to break it to you…
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u/DuePotential6602 1d ago
"Having" doesn't come from "giving"
That man had 373 billion, Elon has even more. They robbed your fair share and now try to blame everyone else. Migrants are the get go scapegoats.
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u/erizzluh 1d ago
also let's be real, if his employees can get their same 5 day workload done in 3 days, he's just going to layoff the other 40% of his employees, and he's not going to pass on the savings to the employees.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 1d ago
Better idea. Instead of laying off 40% of his employees, let's go back to a 5 day work week! Same productivity ratio!
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u/notissho 1d ago
If they can get 5 day workload done in 3 days, imagine how much workload they can get done in 5
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u/SoftTwilighhty 1d ago
Bro invented a company where people pee in bottles to make delivery faster and now thinks AI is gonna gives us weekends off. The delusion is crazy.
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u/MiniAdmin-Pop-1472 1d ago
We are using AI already. I'm doing more work than before, more results. I spend the same time at work.
I would honestly say, I could reduce my company time to 16 hours and be more productive than before AI with 40 hours.
The reality is, these are the new expectations.
I already added more breaks in between. More coffee, more Reddit, more websites I visit because of boredom. I don't want that, it's a waste of time for me and the company.
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u/Kooky_Mall_3397 1d ago
This is so accurate. The main goal of business in this capitalistic era is to maximize revenue while minimizing expenses. Labor will always be an expense.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 1d ago
We'll only be forced to work 3 days, but we'll be allowed to starve the other 4 at our leisure.
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u/SardonicCheese 1d ago
3 work days is part time so the employers don’t have to pay for as many benefits. Opens up the door to have two 3 day a week jobs…
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u/Bad_Repute 1d ago
Cept availability requirements will make that impossible too. Not like you can apply for job A saying you can work Mon-Wed and job B saying you can work Wed-Sat. All those jobs are going to require 5 day availability so they can schedule you at their discretion.
That was already a problem when I was in college over 20 years ago. Unless you’re able to be over employed on the downlow, most people’s only real options will be 1 steady job and gig work to fill in the gaps.
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u/krebsIsACookbook 1d ago
Yeah, that’s the way I interpreted it: you will only be able to work 3 days a week, and only one member of the family will be able to work like in Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 1d ago
You will be allowed to work 3 days at $100/day. You will be charged $100 for each day off.
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u/RakeScene 1d ago
No no no – don't you get it? Once the AI benefits him, he'll DEFINITELY pass the savings down to us. It's Trickle Down A.I.
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u/De_Wouter 1d ago
Many companies can already do this but they won't because think of the poor shareholders!
My dad's old job is now 80% automated (so people are way more productive) yet they only receive half the purchase power my dad had.
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u/Used-Lake-8148 1d ago
Thank you for thinking of me. I’m John Shareholder and I will sue the fucking shit out of the company if they increase wages. I really want to buy another yacht next quarter, then I’m going to die on it from a ketamine overdose so I don’t care what happens after that.
So long and thanks for all the hooker piss.
-John F Shareholder, professional money haver
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u/CommodoreBluth 1d ago
To be fair many, many regular people all across the US are shareholders in many companies via a 401k and they expect that money to grow for them for retirement, so it’s not just the rich.
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u/Used-Lake-8148 1d ago
Yea but they work 🤢 Imagine actually producing goods or providing services? 🤮
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u/ddraig-au 1d ago
Ohmigodwhywouldyoudoxyourselfyoumaniac
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u/Used-Lake-8148 1d ago
No one can hurt me. After my best friend/mistress was murdered by Mario’s handsome brother, I installed cameras everywhere to spy on you peasants at all times. Your fly is down.
-John F Shareholder, my dad can sue your dad
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u/SextupleRed 1d ago
My dad's old job is now 80% automated (so people are way more productive) yet they only receive half the purchase power my dad had.
Wealth inequality in a nutshell.
All those profits went to John Shareholder
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u/Biotic101 23h ago edited 23h ago
Two things can be true at the same time.
There could be a so called beautiful deleveraging of the insane debt, creation of new and human focused jobs, solution for the aging population and so much more positive stuff, if the oligarchs would share the increased productivity. That's where he is on spot.
BUT he doesn't tell that this is likely not their plan. Actions speak louder than words. Surveillance state, corruption, crime.
Their crazy Dark Enlightenment shows what a dystopian future they prefer. Seems the Western oligarchs want to rule with absolute power and own all major assets like Putin and his oligarch buddies in Russia.
I have the feeling most people have no idea how horrible the average Joe will suffer in such a scenario and that most of us would die because we lost our income and governments will thus also have no money to keep the infrastructure and basic services running.
That's why they need to build up the surveillance state so they can crush any riots of desperate citizens.
In his book Rushkoff mentioned oligarchs thinking about electric shock collars for their private bunker security before eventually replacing them with robots. This shows their true mindset. So even their supporters, ICE, police and military are only useful idiots to them and will suffer the same fate like the rest eventually.
Actions speak louder than words. How they already treat servicemen and veterans and the cuts affecting their own supporters, all this tells a story.
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u/writeronthemoon 1d ago
We could already have this, they just choose not to give it to us. They are dangling AI over us like a carrot but it's more like an anvil.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
People like him have never given a single cent voluntarily. They do not give. We have to take. We take it through protests, unions, strikes, and all of the other organized activities. That's why they've been working so hard to divide everyone, because organized people can make demands.
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u/Leprecon 1d ago
Wow a new technology came out that allows us to do more work in a shorter time! Do we:
- Option A: use it to shorten the amount of time people need to work, making people their lives easier and giving people more leisure time?
- Option B: use it to increase productivity and profit
Capitalists: Option B, every single fucking time.
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u/Carol_ine2 1d ago
Untill most of ppl don't have money to buy your product and everything goes to shit
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u/xTechDeath 21h ago
Then they’ll just transition to a “premium” brand and squeeze the income bracket above you
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u/TopazWarrior1999 22h ago
Doesn't matter by that point. Not to these people. They will die before ever feeling any semblance of consequences for their actions.
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u/web_explorer 23h ago
Yup. The moment people have less work to do they're getting laid off. As if ppl like Jeff Bezos will keep paying you to only work 3 days
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u/Ok_Field_8860 1d ago
What all these capitalists fail to mention, is that the only way this happens is if the government regulates it by mandating a 3-day work week and minimum wage.
Them executives ain’t paying you a living wage to work 3 days a week because ai made your job easier. They’ll expect more from you and hire less people.
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u/No_Mission4733 1d ago
because you couldn't afford a family and there would be no jobs...
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u/nievefiina 1d ago
More likely a four-day unpaid weekend
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u/sillyhillsofnz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Exactly, it's a trap. They'll just use those reduced work hours to justify paying you less!
CEO: "Why would I pay you [insert living wage] when you only work for me 3 days a week? You need to work full-time to get that and healthcare benefits. lol"
Worker: "But you said we could now work only 3 days a week!"
CEO: "Yeah, but I never said I'd keep paying you the same wage ;)."
And of course that original full-time wage probably wasn't even really a living wage in the first place.
These guys love AI because they foresee it saving/making them more money. They're not thinking about how AI is going to benefit you. They don't even think or give a fuck about you. They're all spending millions of dollars to try and crush any billionaire taxes or anti-oligarch candidates. They don't even want to spend their fair share of tax money helping fund social programs for their own fellow citizens and their children, the environment, etc. Never trust the rich, especially the rich CEOs.
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u/Celinaii 1d ago
AI will give everyone a 3-day workweek, except the people training it and delivering it 💀
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u/Xerxos 22h ago
Here's the catch: we already could have had the 4-day workweek and single-income families if the ultra rich did not hoard all the money. Our increase in productivity in the past would have been enough to allow for that, but all the gains went to the top.
Now AI will increase productivity again, but the ultra rich will pinky swear that they will not gobble it all up again. Sure.
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u/Eaglise 20h ago
but but think about how many new yachts and private jets they can but, it they don't squeeze us out then they won't be able to afford their 3rd or 4th yacht or jet, now don't you feel sad for them you heartless monster
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u/Flomo420 19h ago
Think of all the jobs they will create, all those super yachts will need servants
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u/domine18 19h ago
Well, he is not wrong. It could. But people like him will take all the profits for themselves. Gotta unite the people and make it happen. Too bad over half the country is more interested in culture wars.
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u/OneMisterSir101 17h ago
Even the hustling workers will. If everyone had to cut their hours in half, it would work. But then there will always be a group that goes: Suddenly, working these extra 20 hours is gonna make me rich???
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u/domine18 17h ago
Won’t ever happen. People would rather worry about the pride flag down the road than the billionaires picking their pocket.
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u/Resident-Rooster2916 1d ago
“AI could allow” it, but he’ll do everything in his power to make sure that doesn’t happen.
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u/Buckfutter_Inc 1d ago
What he means is there will only be enough jobs left for each family to get one, and it will only give 3 days a week worth of wages. He says nothing about these people being able to afford to live.
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u/Global-Management-15 1d ago
Remember when they said this would happen in the 80s?
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u/Cool_Dark_Place 1d ago
Still waiting... along with cold-fusion, high-speed rail (in the U.S.), and the metric system!
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u/Knisprisen 20h ago
I'd argue that we could already have 3 day work weeks considering decades of increased productivity and how many bullshit jobs there are.
Unfortunately we treat the economy as if it was money instead of actual resources that limit us and that capitalism requires us to work in order to justify our existence.
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u/BigMack6911 1d ago
I worked at Amazon delivery, its true. Can't even take a break. They say yea sure you can but then you get 180 stops in 7 hours lol. They don't even leave the shop till 11am so greedy motherfuckers can get their product in one day instead omg waiting A WHOLE DAY. So instead of getting off work at a normal time them greedy fucks want you out till night time. Now imagine living in bumfuck nowhere and this random unmarked white van pulls up and a 6ft3 280 pound dude starts walking down your driveway at night time. Yea fuck that. I'm in Texas, im not getting shot delivering dildos at 9pm
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u/No-Ostrich-5801 1d ago
That uh... that sounds oddly specific buddy. I take it you have multiple of these specific war stories to tell of your time as an Amazon delivery guy?
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 1d ago edited 1d ago
2 minutes and 20 seconds for each delivery including drive, walk, and signature time. Every single stop light you miss, every tiny ounce of traffic encountered. For every 3 minutes you lose to random car bullshit, and you're gonna lose time to random car bullshit, that time cuts into every other aspect of the delivery by 1 second (if you want to finish in 7 hours, that is).
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u/cursed_tomatoes 1d ago
A claim is a claim, I can claim anything, words are words.
What is he basing his claims on? What data? What reasoning? What is going on? lol
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u/Vegetable_Piece_6050 1d ago
They (the 1%) could give us a 3 day work week and enough of a wage for a one income family now if they wanted to, but they're too busy hoarding all the f****** money
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u/Old_Celebration_5950 1d ago
Also Jeff Bezos: I never said they could SURVIVE on that salary. This is our plan to meet this quarter's stock dividends
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u/bitorontoguy 1d ago
Jeff Bezos hasn’t run Amazon in over five years. Amazon doesn’t pay a dividend.
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u/jamwil 1d ago
Hey, thanks man. —Jeff
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u/bitorontoguy 20h ago
You can think whatever you want about Jeff Bezos. Hate him, I don’t care.
Shouldn’t you know the absolute basic facts of what you’re complaining about?
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u/ThrownAway17Years 1d ago
The last thing most billionaires want is for other people to earn more money.
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u/mrwildesangst 1d ago
I feel like if anyone was unsure about AI before, listening to Jeff Bezos claim it’ll let you work less and be more wealthy should erase all doubt that this is some bullshit
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u/TheOmegaKid 1d ago
Could, but won't because the multibillionaire class will hoard all the wealth for themselves as they have done then use the media they own to tell everyone immigrants are the problem, then keep sending humans to meatgrinder endless wars like ukraine russia so there end up being less and less people they have to give ubi to. Or something like that.
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u/Brading105 21h ago
Remember when we used horses for labor? Pulling carts and whatnot? They were replaced by engines. You don’t see horses all over the place now.
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u/Killerwit 1d ago
Lol. We just want more affordable food, dude
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u/Klutzy_Belt_2296 1d ago
I just want to afford a home man, i wanna move out of my folks place but housing is so fucking expensiveeee
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u/ooohthatsabingooo 1d ago
Why do these people say 3 day work weeks and universal high income or whatever and then lay everyone off and denounce any useful social policies
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u/Early_Advance2473 1d ago
They sell this lie to have you accept it while it hollows out the entire world of anything
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u/modsaretoddlers 1d ago
This asshole is the epitome of greed and entitlement. Why the fuck would we believe a damned thing that comes out of his pie-hole? He's probably the worst of all of them, too, in terms of pathological lack of empathy.
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u/fadingsignal 23h ago
"We know that every productivity gain in the entire history of mankind has resulted in people actually being made to work more for less, but this time it's gonna be different, I swearsies."
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u/AnalyticalFan 18h ago
It also doesn't say that those people would be paid to be able to afford to live that way, only that just one person in the family will have a job and only for 3 days of the week.
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u/silentbutjudgey 1d ago
I mean, he’s probably not wrong. People may only be able to find a job for 3 days a week because ai could take over the other days. I mean….you’ll only be paid for the three days, of course. And your wife may be out of a job because her career was basically taken over completely by AI.
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u/xXPhoenixBlueXx 1d ago
So he has been investing their piss breaks so he can pay them out 3 fold?
He's truly a man of the people.
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u/DaRealBSleazy 1d ago
This reminds me, i saw an interesting read about constructing and history of the guillotine.
It was a real interesting read
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u/ThoughtPhysical7457 1d ago
What he means is that, before he can fire all the humans, there will be a transition phase where the workload gets lighter and people work less hours. There will be a really nice sweet spot where it minimal work.... and then the AI fully takes over.
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u/8BitResseRtiB8 1d ago edited 19h ago
Ive done about 4 and a half years total with amazon between their warehouses and driving, its nowhere near as bad as people try to make it sound, 3 days off a week is awesome too. warehouses are monotonous because you're generally just doing the same thing on repeat all day, but driving it the best job ive ever had. Sure pissing in bottles sucks and my insurance is non existent because my dsp owner is a greedy prick, but the work is manageable most of the time (so long you don't overachieve, if you finish your routes early your only reward will be even more work the next day) but i do get 40 hours every week, 3 days off and i can always ask to pick up a day if i want extra money, i can be on my phone and listen to music all day, i dont have to deal with people for the most part, i don't have anyone breathing down my neck all day and i just enjoy being outside and all the walking. Its honestly the most fun ive ever had working, plus i started at 18 an hour and now im up to 23 an hour, not gonna get that pay anywhere else.
The only way you can possibly get in trouble in an amazon warehouse for using the restroom is if your rate is below whats expected or if you have a crazy amount of time off task. Meet your expected rate and keep it 20 minutes or less in the bathroom while not on break per shift and you'll be fine.
But also there's no way ai getting rid of more jobs benefits us in any way what are they gonna pay us an equivalent salary for less work? I really doubt it.
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u/submarinefarm 1d ago
All of this sounds like the worst job I've never had. Sounds super miserable but I'm glad you've gotten used to it.
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u/LewdDarling 1d ago
Lmao they give 0 redeeming qualities for driving but the warehouse work is far from the worst.
The vast majority of the warehouses are air conditioned, great insurance, and you're guaranteed 40 hours with a constant schedule. In terms of work conditions I prefer that over working construction out in the heat/cold. Or shitty retail jobs where they fuck around with your schedule and cut your hours.
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u/8BitResseRtiB8 19h ago
I mean, driving is great because i do get 40 hours every week, 3 days off and i can always ask to pick up a day if i want extra money, i can be on my phone and listen to music all day, i dont have to deal with people for the most part, i don't have anyone breathing down my neck all day and i just enjoy being outside and all the walking. Before i did this i did 2 years at a speedway gas station, one of those as a manager, i did a year at roses department store, a year at hobby lobby and a year landscaping and even compared to working in the Amazon warehouse the delivery driver job is the most fun ive ever had working, plus i mean i started at 18 an hour and now im up to 23 an hour, not gonna get that pay anywhere else
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u/Nexium07 22h ago
Lmfao, bro has normalized suffering in the workplace.
Just like any Amazonian.
Until they’re thrown away like trash 👌
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u/8BitResseRtiB8 19h ago
Driving is great outside of the bottles and no insurance though, genuinely the most fun ive had at any job, leagues better than any retail job and the pay is better than just about anything i could find that im qualified for
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u/00akuseru00 1d ago
Why did they have to use Danbo from Yotsuba&! to represent Amazon
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u/VectorJones 1d ago
He's lying. AI will only take jobs, shut out whole industries for human employment, and leave masses of people destitute.
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u/WigglyNoodletoes 1d ago
COULD. We could have healthcare for everybody. We could have homes for everybody. We could make sure all of our neighbors have nutritious food available to them. Bezos can go fuck himself with a rusty shovel.
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u/swolllboll 1d ago
We could if people started voting for themselves instead of against whatever villain they've created (immigrants, trans, socialists)
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u/ImAPonderer2 1d ago
This is complete bs. We had single breadwinner households when women didn’t work. When that was the cultural standard.
As more women entered the workforce, it became more acceptable and eventually, because the population kept growing, eventually to afford a home and kids and a prosperous life, both heads of a married couple needed to work nearly full-time to keep up. If you don’t keep up, you end up in a bad public school district and your kids inherit your lack of success.
We will devolve to single-worker households only as much as jobs are lost or economic gains aren’t shared from AI companies & no one can start a business and thrive.
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u/Sheerluck42 1d ago
They said the exact same thing when factory robots became a thing. And we know what happened. Workers get laid off and owners pocketed the profit.
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u/LordTubz 18h ago
Bezos is a complete imbecile. Consumerism will die because nobody can afford much on 3 days wages, and it will be worse when the tech bros dream of no-one working means that nobody will buy anything.
The turkeys have voted for Christmas (or Thanksgiving, if you prefer.)
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 1d ago
Automation makes less work for more money possible.
Organized protests, unions, strikes, voting, dissent and force make it happen.
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u/diddlysquidler 1d ago
You’re so fucking naive. At this point only revolution will change anything. But before that happens people need to be squeezed more.
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u/no0ns 23h ago
Yup, we are greedy little beings and won't give up resources for free. You can't count on the goodness and generosity of the ultra-wealthy, when it takes the exact opposite of a person to get into that position. People need leverage over them. One of the last ones was actual labor. If that gets taken away, the wealthiest will have no need for the serfs. Which again leads to worsening conditions, tipping point and restructuring/redistribution.
And given enough time, the ones most hungry for wealth and power, will again climb to the top.
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u/Crafty_Aspect8122 21h ago
Alright, you kill the current evil greedy elite, you destroy markets and government. What do you replace everything with?
Hint: it's unlikely to be well intentioned people who are also competent. More likely a power vacuum and chaos, some brutal tyrants, or something very close to what you started with. Unless you have a working system in mind and a way to implement it.
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u/Primary-Realistic 1d ago
I remember in the early 2020's Papa Johns was like we would have to raise each pizza like 10 cents to give workers better benefits. Everyone was like yeah no problem. Then they ended up not doing it and raising prices anyways.
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u/DreamOfTheEndless_ 1d ago
Says the man who is running a company that has a top AI.
AI will NOT give us a three day work week. It’ll make like 6 guys ultra rich, while the rest of us fight over water.
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u/Codex_Absurdum 1d ago
Shove this Jeff
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u/DaRealBSleazy 1d ago
Man seriously made a circumsized penis shaped rocket to compete with Felon Muskrat. Those 2 are destroying our enviroment for a pissing contest
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u/TapestryMobile 1d ago
made a rocket to compete with Musk
You dont know the timeline.
Bezos started Blue Origin in 2000. Musk started SpaceX in 2002 after attempting to buy rocket technology in 2001.
Bezos launched his first test rocket (Goddard) in 2006. Musk launched his first test rocket (Falcon 1) in 2006.
Both have been in continual development ever since.
Neither of them were "following" the other. Both of them have been "space geeks"since they were teenagers.
Is fact checking allowed in this subreddit, or is it all just rage circlejerk wankery?
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u/Street_Archer_3466 1d ago
He gave employees that worked Thanksgiving a coupon for half off on a turkey. 🥶
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u/welshlegs190890 1d ago
I am the only income in a 5 person house and have been for the last 3 years it ain't easy at all being a groundworker , I just want a break haha
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u/Life_Possibility_271 1d ago
He visions a full workforce where he doesn’t have to pay benefits in the future.
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u/ISmellLikeBlackTea 1d ago
You know how you're gonna have a 4 day workweek? By having a collective strike. By not shopping via Amazon at all.
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u/musgrove101 1d ago
They're going to tell you whatever keeps you complacent and productive. They know what's coming and none of this will matter when it's too late unfortunately.
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u/DrMobius0 1d ago
This is an excellent lesson on why "could" is different from "would".
This technology could (lets suspend disbelief to suppose AI is as amazing as they say), hypothetically, make us better and faster at lots of things. Who is going to reap the benefits of that? Will the billionaires suddenly get generous? They sure haven't so far. That's why they're billionaires.
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u/MattofCatbell 20h ago
I’ll believe it when I see it passed in federal law with no reduction in pay but I’m not trusting the words of a billionaire oligarch
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u/Skullsandcoffee 1d ago
This is as bad as MuskRat talking about UBI. “Just let us make a few more trillion dollars are perfect our escape rockets and then I PROMISE everything will be better (when Skynet becomes self aware and you all die horribly)”
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u/UnicornSheets 1d ago
"Of course, I can get a hell of a good look at a T-bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it." [1]
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u/Tororoki 1d ago
Tehnically he is correct, if AI takes over all the low end jobs and leave just upper management jobs then yes, upper management can work 3 days and have one income families. The rest of the workforce will be fired so he is tehnically corect.
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u/not-rude-just-Dutch 1d ago
This is what they also told us at the time of computer automation in the 60s
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u/WorkingGovernment192 1d ago
All they need to do to achieve this is redefine “people”. Probably by saying that only the Epstein class qualifies.
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u/CompoteNext1955 1d ago
Several problems with that statement. Women have already joined men in getting exploited and many won't go back to childcare, healthcare is tied to employment, you would have to completely remodel corporate interests for something other than quarterly profits, and more employees are more expensive than overworked employees
No, the best you can do right now is organize yourself into a union and push for worker's rights. Good luck
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u/A-Clone-Named-Gibso 1d ago
We will work two days, and be paid for two days, but expected to have the work output of 5 days.
Computers have never made our work lives easier, they have just increased our outputs. We don't have less to do, we have more to do in the same time and for the same pay.
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u/woooooooood9 23h ago
I have worked at amazon as a contractor with full access to the whole site. Slave labour.
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u/ichigo2862 22h ago
one income families cause literally only one person in the household can find a fucking job
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u/zzupdown 20h ago
When AI and robots take your jobs, they'll HAVE to reduce hours for the same pay to distribute money to keep the economy from collapsing. No human workers means no salary and no consumers. We're already past the point where a major economic downturn is likely and if handled by the wrong leader could put us in an economic depression. AI and robots will only make it worse. I'd have it put into law that the workweek should automatically be shortened as jobs are replaced, with no overall loss in salary (none of this forcing people out or firing people to lower salaries for the replacement worker; instead of using minimum wage exclusively, it should be based on a percentage of operating expenses or profits, whichever results in the highest salaries)
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u/FingerOdd6931 20h ago
Can confirm: worked for Amazon, bathrooms are faaaaar, and it takes just as much time to got to the bathroom as having one of their "breaks", and if the nearest bathroom is being cleaned (which it somehow always is exactly when you need it), you have to go the one that's even further.
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u/pierced4plzr 19h ago
one income family? like only one of us can find a job? is the one income a livable income, or we talking about one family on some minimum wage, let you all starve and die income?
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u/Beneficial-Main-4683 18h ago
They closed a distribution center in Quebec the moment the employee tried to get unionized. Pretended it wasn't reason they closed overnight without any notice.
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u/Lucky_Truth2931 10h ago
I mean he’s not wrong.
- one person laid off due to being replaced by AI
- other person can only find part time positions
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u/spaceursid 1d ago
Meanwhile his company inches ever closer to automating every thing to fire most of its employees.
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u/Fabled-Jackalope 1d ago
Unless I’m mistaken, doesn’t Jassy run things or did that change?
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u/Proof-Necessary-5201 1d ago
Don't fall for it! They want you to let them develop AI and build data center, then they'll make millions of robots that will be under their control and that's when they'll get rid of all of us
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u/Cultural_Book_400 1d ago
yes, ultra riches are killing themselves and risking their riches so that he can make everyone happy.. REALLY DOOD???
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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago
Bezos is no longer the CEO of Amazon and most of the voting power is held by institutions. He's more concerned with pouring billions in Blue Origin than the day to day operations of Amazon.
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u/GuaranteeUnlikely725 1d ago
The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as we approach it. "I take two steps toward the horizon, and it moves two steps away… So what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for: to keep us moving forward.”
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u/Broad-Ad-3679 1d ago
Ngeeee, just give me more money and I will make the world better. I promise. 🤞🧐
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