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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Briefly, we can collectively choose to work four, three, or even two days a week, despite seeing a decrease in overall productivity.

Or we can collectively choose to never shorten the work week while productivity continues to outpace wages forever. Which is what republicans and centrist democrats both want.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You seem to agree with my last point, which was that

    the distribution of wealth in society, and how it’s shifted the past 20-50 years is more concerning

    That is: The major problem we have today is that the increase in production we've seen the past 20-50 years has primarily benefited the wealthy. This needs to change. Once we have decent wealth distribution, we can make an informed decision on whether we want to reduce our total productivity in order to have more free time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Once we have decent wealth distribution, we can make an informed decision on whether we want to reduce our total productivity in order to have more free time.

    And since that will have its own set of prerequisites that centrists will work with republicans to block, we'll keep on as we are, with productivity outpacing wages forever.

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