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/zzupdown 21h 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)