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Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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  • unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have always said, since the dawn of modern computing, we’ve been becoming more efficient and require less hours. If anything, we could work 3x 6 hour days already even without AI.

    It used to take days for insurance quotes, buying a car (financing), and many other technical tasks… Now, everything is so instant. But the workload keeps increasing to keep us poors busy.

    Jeff Bezos saying this, is fucking dumb, because he’s just trying to sell us AI in the idea we’ll work less. BS. Even if we did work less, how does that make households survive on 1 income? So fucking full of shit, all billionaires. Detached from reality.

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    • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s almost as if 5 days is the most sustainable amount of work you can consistently squeeze out of someone and the prices will always rise to ensure it will take that amount or more to survive. 🤔

      Sounds like a rigged game on a treadmill to me.

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    • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      we could work 3x 6 hour days already even without AI.

      We can!

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This guy capitalisms

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    • daddycool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is exactly what will happen. If you can do your work in half the time, you’ll just get more work. Simple as that.

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      • conartistpanda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But the pay will increase :D. Right?

        Right?

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      • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I learned that in my first official job. Being a good worker just makes you a sucker. I still am a good worker, the best usually, but I have rarely even gotten an attaboy for it. Luckily I am self (un)employed now for some time.

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    • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now you’re thinking ouside the box workers’ interest!

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  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck off! The industrial revolution should have given us 4 day workweeks decades ago. But, we have been so propagandized and called lazy if we don’t work until we are dead, that people forgot that life is not about the job.

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    • funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s about positioning yourself for the next job. Just keep your head down and work harder, then things will be get better.

      If you work hard your whole life and it still doesn’t come, you will be reincarnated to someone with a better socioeconomic standing bases on a formula of how many sick days you use and the stock performance of your company.

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  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Worker’s rights must be fought for with sweat, tears and blood. They are historically not handed down by billionaires, not once ever.

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    • Nowtayneicangetinto@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bezos stepped away from Amazon, so it’s easy for him to say this now to sound like he cares, meanwhile Elon said his workers need to be there no less than 40 hours a week in office. Which is coded speak for “you live here now”

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      • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought that numbnut was pushing for 60 hour work weeks?

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  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a really effective way of putting it honestly

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    • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bezos wasn’t necessarily lying. You have to look at it from his perspective… you see, he doesn’t see the rest of us as people. He and his billionaire class plan on working 3 days a week.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s at least a bit nice of them to plan working a bit more.

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      • Denvil@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They work?

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bezog is right. 100%.

    We could have that with AI. But oligarch trash like him will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      3 day work weeks? Oh I guess you don’t need benefits as a part time worker!

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    • ourselves@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We could have three day work weeks without AI

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  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s already given thousands of his employees 0 day work weeks in favor of AI.

    Maybe he’s eyeing the fast food strategy of keeping hours under the requirement to provide health insurance.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah this stuff is rage bait. If workers ever get 3 day work week, they will simply get half their salary as well.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah this stuff is rage bait

      There are some people out there that have the power to create policies but also for some reason want to do good for people in general. Except that they don’t understand tech. This is to bait them into becoming “for AI”.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    36 hours, 12 hour shifts, no breaks, and still not a full 40 to qualify for full-time benefits.

    That’s what he’d do.

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s just nursing, except they get benefits

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Him paying just a little bit of taxes could give Americans a 3-day workweek.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All we need is AI and a guillotine. Honestly, just the guillotine would probably get us a 3 day work week.

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  • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It will be 25 hours. You’ll get paid for 25 hours, and it will be 5 hours per day for five days. That’s a “3-day work week”.

    But, since it’s part-time legally, no healthcare, and no paid time off, because you “only work a 3-day week.”

    Fuck this billionaire, and all the rest. No one would miss them if they disappeared, and worse, they’re leeches on our society. We’d all be much better off without them.

    Stop buying crap from Amazon, what the hell are you doing!?

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i read this as: nobody will be “allowed” a long enough work week to qualify for any benefits.

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He means only one person per family, on average, will be able to find a job.

    And those who do, will only be able to find a part time job that schedules them 3 days at most to not risk triggering overtime or benefits thresholds.

    Its a monkey’s paw. That’s why bezos’ head looks like that and why he parts his yacht in a volcano shaped like a skull

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    • funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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  • grainfed@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funny..a billionaire says… These people don’t need to say anything, so IF they do, I get suspicious. Just to save time I assume they are lying to try to manipulate the general public.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man I love Gianmarco Soresi. ❤️

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  • theacharnian@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You silly proles. You misunderstood. Bezos 100% means what he said. But he was talking about people. He just doesn’t see you as people.

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  • JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.

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    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And what’s he at these days? 2 days?

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    • grainfed@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What do you mean 3 days? Do you thing he actually does “work”? Would he have persons to do it for him?

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  • Fowlplay@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bezoa was on Epstein island. Release the files, put him in ja and seize his money.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      bezos, musk, THIEL, zuckerberg and his wife were all in the same table at one time, along with an billionaires i cannot remember, but i remember that billioniare was significant too,.

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  • savvie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beelebezos

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  • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mif there is ever going to be a chance of that, the bare minimum will be a wealth tax. Tax the principle wealth of billionaires. Not gains, not unrealized gains. The principle wealth.

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  • MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even though amazon work situation sounds like slavery with extra step, there are still lots of people willing to work there regardless because they got little choice in this dystopia , sigh.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “It COULD, but we can’t ACTUALLY do that because we’re the job creators who are saving humanity from destruction by keeping all the money.”

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  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Automation makes wealth. The problem with automation is that billionares steal the gains from everyone else. The problem with AI is that it automates very little and is wastwful.

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    • Seralth@piefed.seralth.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean it CAN automate a lot and it’s not wasteful.

      ITS EXTREMELY WASTEFUL. Lol

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Chatbots aren’t very good for automation. You need consistency for that.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So start it up, Jeff. Hire more people to do less work. Don’t need ai, or automation, or industrialisation, or any of that for the wealthy to share their largess. It’s all technically possible right now.

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  • Ashrakal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sweet words that hide the true meaning; they want the LLMs to be advanced enough to get rid of most of us.

    Good thing they can’t, because LLMs aren’t a miraculous technology at all.

    Still, it doesn’t hurt to keep these lunatics in check.

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  • ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i mean, that would be the appropriate use for any tech: reduce workload, better invome, more free time.

    i just have an inkling, that people like bezos would not be in favour of paying their employees the same or more for less work hours…

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure it could. But people like Bezos won’t allow it.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The people working may have 3 day weeks, but they’ll get paid for 3 day weeks, and 50% of the population will have 0 day weeks because they’ll be unemployed.

    He’s basically saying that we won’t have a need for most full-time positions in the future. Just someone to replace the ink/toner, lubricate a few moving parts, update some software, replace some worn parts, etc.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which I’ll give him, sounds awesome, just not with a bunch of rich cunts at the helm. It would be great if working was a choice, something you did because you find joy in doing it, like art, or masturbation. That will never happen as long as there’s an owning class who stand to gain as much as a penny from exploitation of the people.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      By one income families, I’m pretty sure he means there won’t be enough jobs for more than one person in a family. Not that it will be enough to live on.

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  • fluffy_cloud@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This sub is so 5 minutes hate

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