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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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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We could have done this 150 years ago when oil gave us 100 times more energy back than it took to extract it.

Humans are a defective species, we must see others suffer.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah it’s just that the socio-economic system we’re stuck with that literally incentivizes ghoulish behavior that causes suffering. Change the system, change humanity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think you may have cause and effect inverted.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well yes, ghouls were the ones who invented capitalism, but before that we had feudalism, which was even more ghoulish - but guess what, we don’t go around drawing and quartering criminals anymore, so it looks like I’m right. Change the system, change humanity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Nah, we just change the methods, the underlying mechanism is the same. For example, you need to win so you wrote "looks like I'm right", instead of clobbering me. But that innate human need to triumph over the other is still there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    To be fair, we kinda did. Don't get me wrong, workers are still heavily exploited now, but we've come a long way since then. At least we have minimum wage and some degree of workers rights now, even if we still have a way to go.

    Hopefully this current productivity boom can continue to push us along that path without driving us further into techno dystopia.

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