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.
Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
Submitted 17 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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Ashrakal@lemmy.ml 40 minutes ago
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
The late-stage capitalist system is structurally incompatible with advanced AI. If you trade your time/labor for money, and are now required to compete against advanced automated systems, you will always lose.
“could allow” yea… 😂 Who “could allow” exactly?
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 hour 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
funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Triasha@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
fluffy_cloud@piefed.world 1 hour ago
This sub is so 5 minutes hate
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 53 minutes ago
That’s just nursing, except they get benefits
SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This has bigger meaning than the primary topic of the article. If they say this, even if they don’t mean it, they’re still under the belief that they control all business across the US. There is no belief by anyone like Bezos that small business is even remotely competitive to them. This is complete domination of all business to say you can determine the work week length. It’s their AI. These aren’t our products helping us.
Where does the small business fit into these plans? If there’s no competition, then there’s no capitalism. If we have no capitalism today then it’s up to the people to determine what the next system will be.
MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 3 hours 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 hours 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.
MBech@feddit.dk 36 minutes 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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
unitedwithme@lemmy.today 16 hours 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.
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
einlander@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This guy capitalisms
daddycool@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
conartistpanda@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But the pay will increase :D. Right?
Right?
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Now you’re thinking ouside the
boxworkers’ interest!
Dojan@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Is that actually Bezos, or a wax figure of him?
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Him paying just a little bit of taxes could give Americans a 3-day workweek.
1984@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Yeah this stuff is rage bait. If workers ever get 3 day work week, they will simply get half their salary as well.
ulterno@programming.dev 3 hours 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”.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I like urinating. It’s generally pretty fun, I mean, any time I get to not just take out and touch my penis but to expund a tasty liquid at the same time? I don’t understand why more people aren’t into public urination or at least group urination. It is invigorating. Maybe if Jeff Bezos dicked a fuck we could use our Johnsons rightly, but as it stands, the piss stands still. Shame.
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 5 hours 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…
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sure it could. But people like Bezos won’t allow it.
EndOfLine@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Man I love Gianmarco Soresi. ❤️
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
That’s a really effective way of putting it honestly
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 16 hours 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.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
It’s at least a bit nice of them to plan working a bit more.
Denvil@piefed.world 15 hours ago
They work?
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 15 hours 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.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
3 day work weeks? Oh I guess you don’t need benefits as a part time worker!
ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
3 day work week, but still 72-hours per week.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 hours 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.
Grimy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
All we need is AI and a guillotine. Honestly, just the guillotine would probably get us a 3 day work week.
grainfed@quokk.au 13 hours 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.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.”
bedwyr@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
I never realized until this picture just how fucking stupid Bezos looks.
No wonder his hot wife left him.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
He looks like Lex Luther from Smallville.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
Holy shit, I never saw the superman stuff, but he does look like lex luther, others remarked on that long ago as I recall, and they were right.
JamieDub86@piefed.social 13 hours ago
He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
And what’s he at these days? 2 days?
grainfed@quokk.au 13 hours ago
What do you mean 3 days? Do you thing he actually does “work”? Would he have persons to do it for him?
AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
Worker’s rights must be fought for with sweat, tears and blood. They are historically not handed down by billionaires, not once ever.
Nowtayneicangetinto@thelemmy.club 40 minutes 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”