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[–] 50 points 11 months ago

I am sure it is for the CEO but for everyone else it is endless crunch time.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Can’t wait for my rent to go down 40% with my salary

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What they're not telling you is that weeks will now be two days long and you'll owe your employer for that missing day.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Or you will need to pick up 3 other jobs to make ends meet. 3 days at slave camp 1, 3 days at slave camp 2 over lapping 3 days for slave camp 3

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't MS just put out a RTO mandate like a week ago? Sure they'll totally let people have 3 day work weeks.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Are there still idiots listening to the masturbatory fantasies of CEO's?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Are people just gonna be paid for less hours?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Yes, I'm sure if AI makes a company's workforce 40% more efficient, then CEOs will give employees 40% more free time and not just layoff 40% if their workforce.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    And the rest of us will be homeless and dead on the street.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    This is hyperbolic bullshit. It’s also a warning that executives and their boards are doing their best to will us into permanent serfdom if they get their way.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's literally the only way for capitalism to keep going...

    When there's not enough jobs to earn money for resources shit hits the fan.

    To compensate for technological advances the standard work week needs to shrink while wages at least stay the same. That way there's more jobs.

    It's literally the whole point of the Luddite movement when the auto look showed up.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    But what if our oligarchs just let 40% of us die, instead? Do they even notice a difference? They probably make more money.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it's dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.

    basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that's in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    some people are already working 0-day workweeks.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    So, distribution of surplus value is on the table, again.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm sure they already work 3 days a week

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    The smartest, most technically knowledgeable one of them is Gates. The retirement age dork who's wife divorced him over Epstein and never had his buddy Woz's skills.

    These rich dipshit are just pumping their investments.

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