Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It did, for a select few. Less than four days, even. You just had to be one of the finance sector aristocrats who laid claim to enough passive rents.

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• somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1880s. Industrial revolution.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I assume /s but seriously the 40 hour work week was 1940 so the eighties was four decades later. It was more than enough time and plenty of technological efficiency had come to pass. We should be doing round 3 at this point at least. I mean we are not that far from it being a century since.

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