Hahahahaha The only reason we have a 5 day workweek is the labor movement. Capitalists then love to saunter up later with their new tech saying they can shave a few more days off. Does it ever happen? Nope. You get new work and they pocket the savings.
So everyone needs two jobs plus paying out of pocket for what were full-time benefits?
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I think the idea that any created value is going to be shared, is so naive it’s dangerous.
Jensen Huang, huh? The same guy in charge of Nvidia and their massive AI chip market? Mmmmkaaaayyy
Fucking lol.
IF they get an 80% productivity boost and can choose to either:
A) Maintain staffing, maintain pay, only make workers work 3 days a week.
B) Fire 60% of staff, maintain 5 days a week, and freeze raises because the market is now awash with newly laid off people
What do YOU think they’re gonna do?
Marx called this more then a century ago, any labor saving technology will always be used to put people in the unemployment line instead of lessening work because capitalist love a long unemployment line to keep the workers in line.
He thought that it would lead to the unemployed masses teaming up with the imiserated workers to overthrow capitalism, which hasn’t happened…yet.
I don’t think you or I or Marx need to over engineer the explanation in terms of “wanting unemployment lines to keep ‘workers in line’”
It’s sufficient to say there is an immediate profit motive to just fire the workers and pocket the surplus, I think.
Not well versed enough in social theory or empirical outcomes to really know… But it seems enough to me
Or C) actually do 3-day workweek, and pay people 3/5 as much.
I do feel like some facilities are using AI to calculate their OEE because holy shit that’s some inflation Batman.
You will work three days in one job, and then another three on another job in order to pay the rent. And then you’ll need a side hustle and a Sunday job to afford food.
And both jobs will require you to be in the office.
Exactly. It’ll be a 3-day workweek, and you’ll only get paid for three days of work. They’re not gonna give us the same wages for less work.
Productivity has more than doubled since the 5 day workweek was introduced 1. We could have that right now. At least a four day work week has been proven to be more productive in multiple studies.
So what can AI do that hasn’t already been done?
1 Fought and died for
I did post this before reading the article, the entire premise of the (CEOs quoted in the) article is “AI more productive therefore less work required” which only shows that the several CEOs mentioned including Bill fucking Gates are all deeply and inexcusably ignorant of labour or even economic history.
several CEOs mentioned including Bill fucking Gates are all deeply and inexcusably ignorant of labour or even economic history.
lol…
They are selling their shiti AI. People underestimating oligarchs has got to stop. They have dozens of SMEs on any given topic advising them.
When they talk it is for their own benefit. They are not stupid.
Looks like his pants are on fire… weird.
yeah, that’s such fucking bullshit. Why the hell would they ever fucking do that when they can just hire one person and work them 10 times as hard for five days a week and leave the rest of us unemployed. It makes zero economic sense. AI is not here to solvethe world‘s problems. It’s here to solve the wage problems and it is well on its way.
The wage problems are that people aren’t paid enough. AI aims to solve the “my billions still aren’t enough” problem that these lunatics have.
That is exactly what I mean. The wage problem is a capitalist problem, and boy howdy will it be solved.
With a 7 day week for those fixing it’s mistakes
CEOs only act in the interests of shareholders. Any claims they make about things benefiting workers are utter horseshit.
Ah yes, because these pricks certainly care about a sustainable wage and not just not wanting to pay another 16 hours or more per week.
Sounds like total crap, 3-day work week maybe in 100 years, the world will have moved to flying cars before that’ll happen.
Nah, instead people who work will continue being stuck in a constant crunch time. There will only be more unemployed people and the owners and shareholders will continue to pocket the extra profit.
