I do enjoy working a lot

Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer to work shorter weeks for companies that profit from me

Then I can spend more time on my own projects which is more rewarding

The tech bro billionaires have a bright future planned for humanity. When jobs disappear, they’re hoping we all start fighting and killing each other until disasters reduce the global
Population. Meanwhile, they will be shacked up in their remote luxury resorts riding out events until there are a few million people left who can then work as their very own serfs

Well yeah, i enjoy being busy. It's even kinda necessary for me due to ADHD, if i sit still with nothing to do for too long, days to weeks, early symptoms of depression start to slowly creep in which will get worse over time.

I'd just like to be busy with my interests and hobbies, not damned work. Even though I actually do like my work.

Sam Altman says

Opinion discarded

Yes Sam, we are yearning for the mines, and for billionaires to abuse us even more...

Yeah, but like, being busy by doing things we enjoy doing

Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?

He isn't even an AI expert, his own employees have said so. He is just the adman.

I’d like to interject for a moment, but what you’re actually referring as Sam Altman isn’t his actual name, but as I’ve taken to calling him Scam Altman

People enjoy productivity. People love working on things. But they don't enjoy working on things for someone else, all while getting nothing out of it but some financial compensation for their time wasted.

One of the most awful feelings is being too exhausted to work on your own projects. It's so unfulfilling and anti-human nature.

We like to be busy, not exploited and not waste our lives doing meaningless drivel.

last time I checked, Sam Altman was not an authority on humans

capitalists gonna capitalist. news at 10.

Billionaires will only read your first sentence

If i force myself to read anything he's said, i make sure i read it in that pre-pubescent voice of his. I can never get past the way it sounds like he's straining to summon enough energy to make sound come out of his mouth. The ideas that couple with that hideous noise just make the situation magnitudes worse 🫩

some financial compensation for their time wasted.

*As minimal financial compensation as possible, which must be constantly fought over too.

It's probably just the usual of trying to appeal to people in power/higher position aka basic bootlicking.

yes, they are in fact all just humans

Probably. Paris Marx just wrote a post about Musk that reminds me of this a bit https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/

I would play games and work on my many many side projects. I'd have so much more time for that (and let's be honest, maybe some games) if we had 4 day work weeks!

I publicly like to keep myself busy with non-work related activities.

"We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It's like a relative game. People are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people," the CEO said.

they had us in the first half. not gonna lie~

People billionaires are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people billionaires.

I believe he is an Alternative man.

I retired young, at 38 years old. I'm not wealthy, just broken from 20 years of military service and receiving enough pay and benefits to cover my basic needs without having to work.

Do I want to be busy? Heck yeah! My days are so packed with stuff to do, I need to keep a schedule so I don't miss out on things going on in my life. I'm booked solid for at least a few years out on projects, events, socializing, and general fun activities.

Do I want to go back to work though? Fuck no. I gave up my personal freedom and a handful of my basic human rights to work for the govt for 2 decades. It's my time now.

I enjoy not having to wake up at god-awful hours of the morning. I enjoy not having to dress up and go to a job, where I'm stuck until a certain time of day regardless of my productivity level. I enjoy deciding each morning what my day is going to be like, or choosing not to face the day and just veg out in bed all day.

Most everyone wants to be busy. Most people want to live though, not work. I achieved that dream and get to live the rest of my life enjoying things. I just had to sacrifice my mind and body to "earn" it.

His friend calls him Clammy Sam

Sure, but I could use the extra time from not having to work as much to forage for berries and make tasty foods with them.

Yes ... busy doing the stuff we want to do, not busy doing the stuff we have to do for a boss we hate!

Fuck you Sam. I hope a piano falls on you.

Billionaires are a different species that should be hunted to extinction

He's half right. I enjoy being busy, as long as I'm doing things I want when I want. What my employer wants me to do is rarely on the top of that list.

Clamuel even

Yes... Doing things we enjoy rather than working.

*Scamuel

Sam Altman is talking out of his ass again. More news at ten

Fuck whatever Scam Crapman says

Got a good laugh from that. Beautifully succinct.

Scam Faultman

Busy with what

This mfer thinks we don't do shit outside of working hours wtf

Weird, I thought I said Sam Altman could go fuck himself after the last awful thing he said, did nobody pass my message on?

Something something revealed preference.

Oh no! My secret love for labor! I sure hope no one tries to reduce my quality of life by reducing my hours/full paycheck!

Man's desperate to block out the howling void where human interaction should be

What's that? The essential promise of AI that people cared about (real people, not rich assholes) was a lie the whole time? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

This relates to the thing I am most confused by in today's business climate. Companies face brutal competition, and tremendous pressure to "innovate" (screw the customer more), and yet every ounce of research on the question suggests that rather than pushing people to work longer and longer hours, they can get the most out of their workforce by mandating proper sleep, time walking/in nature/exercise, non-continuous working periods, and comfort items like faster computers, better chairs, higher quality food, etc.

Why isn't any company ruthlessly pursuing efficiency by giving bonuses for sleeping well? It would be super creepy and authoritarian to mandate sleep monitoring, but I don't see why that stops them, when it doesn't appear to in any other direction. Or even simpler, requiring shorter working hours, but expecting the same/more output?

Is it this exact attitude, that somehow happy workers with free time will get up to no good, or become depressed, or feel less committed or something?

I think this is true to an extent. It's why I don't give much Creedence to the "no one would work under communism" rhetoric.

That being said, there's a difference between keeping busy with hobbies and building stuff for myself or to eventually sell, and making my employer money.

The only people I know who are keen on going to work have been doing 40 hour weeks for decades. It's not enjoyment, it's indoctrination. Enjoying being busy is in no way equivalent to enjoying sitting in a office hearing Janet say "Someone has a case of the Mondays!".

Billionaires secretly enjoy guillotines.

“Those peasants and their secret love for having food and a roof over their heads, lol. “

I really wondering what the rich taste like.

Do all the spite and evilness will have an effect in the taste of their meat?

Bro read about bullshit jobs and thought it sounds like winning formula