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Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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HumanOnEarth lemmy.ca HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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That's a really effective way of putting it honestly

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terranoid lemmy.cafe terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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That's a really effective way of putting it honestly

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.

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unitedwithme lemmy.today unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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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.

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i_stole_ur_taco lemmy.ca i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Bezos is right. 100%.

We could have that with AI. But oligarch trash like him will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

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Denvil piefed.world Denvil@piefed.world
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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.

They work?

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savvie lemmy.zip savvie@lemmy.zip
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#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

Beelzebezos

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Potato Lover ๐Ÿ’พ No brain found lemmy.sdf.org user224@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.

It's at least a bit nice of them to plan working a bit more.

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MrOtingocni lemmy.world MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
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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, ...

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. ๐Ÿค”

Sounds like a rigged game on a treadmill to me.

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Grimy lemmy.world Grimy@lemmy.world
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All we need is AI and a guillotine. Honestly, just the guillotine would probably get us a 3 day work week.

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CoffeeSoldier sh.itjust.works CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works
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Bullshit. Capitalist rat-race culture will never normalize this. You'll just end up managing 33 different AIs for 16h a day and barely paying rent and you know it.

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Fowlplay lemmy.zip Fowlplay@lemmy.zip
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#12 · Quote Reply

Bezoa was on Epstein island. Release the files, put him in ja and seize his money.

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RedGreenBlue lemmy.zip RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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#13 · (edited) Quote Reply

Automation makes wealth. The problem with automation is that billionares steal the gains from everyone else. The problem with AI is that it automates very little and is wasteful.

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JamieDub86 piefed.social JamieDub86@piefed.social
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He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.

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grainfed quokk.au grainfed@quokk.au
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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.

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grainfed quokk.au grainfed@quokk.au
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He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.

What do you mean 3 days? Do you thing he actually does "work"? Would he have persons to do it for him?

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heartSagan5 lemmy.zip heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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He means 3 day weeks for him and people like him.

And what's he at these days? 2 days?

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PixeIOrange lemmy.world PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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It's at least a bit nice of them to plan working a bit more.

It's at least a bit nice of them to plan working a bit more.

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EndOfLine lemmy.world EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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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.

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pelespirit sh.itjust.works pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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einlander lemmy.world einlander@lemmy.world
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If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

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NotMyOldRedditName lemmy.world NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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Bezos is right. 100%. We could have that with AI. But oligarch trash like him will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

3 day work weeks? Oh I guess you don't need benefits as a part time worker!

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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"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."

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FauxLiving lemmy.world FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

This guy capitalisms

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acargitz lemmy.ca theacharnian@lemmy.ca
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#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

You silly proles. You misunderstood. Bezos 100% means what he said. But he was talking about people. He just doesn't see his employees (or you) as people.

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๐ŸŒธ๐“ฏ๐“ต๐“ธ๐”€๐“ฎ๐“ป๐ŸŒธ sh.itjust.works Flower@sh.itjust.works
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#26 · Quote Reply

So now you can easily take on 4 jobs to make rent

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BigBoyShuanzee aussie.zone BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone
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#27 · (edited) Quote Reply

This man needs a guillotine outside his house 24/7
Musk, Ellison and that cunt that runs Nestle need the same guillotine outside their houses too

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#28 · (edited) Quote Reply

This man needs a guillotine outside his house 24/7 Musk, Ellison and that cunt that runs Nestle need the same guillotine outside their houses too

bezos an alien, did marry a freaky space lizard looking person, her smile has AOT vibes.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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Bezoa was on Epstein island. Release the files, put him in ja and seize his money.

bezos, musk, THIEL, zuckerberg and his wife were all in the same table at one time, along with an billionaires i cannot remember, but i remember that billioniare was significant too,.

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vaionko sopuli.xyz vaionko@sopuli.xyz
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If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

Now you're thinking ouside the box workers' interest!

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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#31 · Quote Reply

Man I love Gianmarco Soresi. โค๏ธ

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1984 lemmy.today 1984@lemmy.today
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#32 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yeah this stuff is rage bait. If workers ever get 3 day work week, they will simply get half their salary as well.

For most people you can't pay your bills with half your salary.

I'm getting tired of seeing tech make everything worse for human beings. It was not the idea from the start. This is because big tech has become as powerful as entire countries. And their culture is about max profits, of course.

All of this was predicted in many books and scifi movies but still we are unable to stop this development.

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Seralth piefed.seralth.com Seralth@piefed.seralth.com
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Automation makes wealth. The problem with automation is that billionares steal the gains from everyone else. The problem with AI is that it automates very little and is wasteful.

I mean it CAN automate a lot and it's not wasteful.

ITS EXTREMELY WASTEFUL. Lol

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daddycool lemmy.world daddycool@lemmy.world
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#34 · Quote Reply

If ai could let people do 5 days of work in 3 days, imagine what they can do in 7!

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.

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DupaCycki lemmy.world DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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#35 · Quote Reply

Him paying just a little bit of taxes could give Americans a 3-day workweek.

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anon_8675309 lemmy.world anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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#36 · Quote Reply

Sure it could. But people like Bezos wonโ€™t allow it.

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OneOfManyPerfectCats sh.itjust.works OneOfManyPerfectCats@sh.itjust.works
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#37 · Quote Reply

Everyone getting paid for 3 days only is what he means

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ramble81 lemmy.zip ramble81@lemmy.zip
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#38 · Quote Reply

3 day work week, but still 72-hours per week.

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ToxicWaste lemmy.cafe ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe
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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...

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bedwyr piefed.ca bedwyr@piefed.ca
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#40 · Quote Reply

I never realized until this picture just how fucking stupid Bezos looks.

No wonder his hot wife left him.

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ulterno programming.dev ulterno@programming.dev
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#41 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yeah this stuff is rage bait. If workers ever get 3 day work week, they will simply get half their salary as well. For most people you can't pay your bills with half your salary. I'm getting tired of seeing tech make everything worse for human beings. It was not the idea from the start. This is because big tech has become as powerful as entire countries. And their culture is about max profits, ...

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".

Also, to help others make excuses for adding AI.

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MasutaHarada thelemmy.club MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club
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#42 · Quote Reply

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.

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RememberTheApollo_ lemmy.world RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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#43 · Quote Reply

36 hours, 12 hour shifts, no breaks, and still not a full 40 to qualify for full-time benefits.

Thatโ€™s what heโ€™d do.

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conartistpanda lemmy.world conartistpanda@lemmy.world
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#44 · Quote Reply

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.

But the pay will increase :D. Right?

Right?

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BradleyUffner lemmy.world BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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#45 · Quote Reply

I never realized until this picture just how fucking stupid Bezos looks. No wonder his hot wife left him.

He looks like Lex Luther from Smallville.

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bedwyr piefed.ca bedwyr@piefed.ca
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#46 · Quote Reply

He looks like Lex Luther from Smallville.

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.

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Leon pawb.social Dojan@pawb.social
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#47 · Quote Reply

But the pay will increase :D. Right? Right?

Well no, because now a portion of what you'd be paid needs to go to the billionaires who own the datacentres and the LLMs. :)

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BarneyPiccolo lemmy.today BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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#48 · Quote Reply

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.

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Leon pawb.social Dojan@pawb.social
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#49 · Quote Reply

Is that actually Bezos, or a wax figure of him?

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GutterRat42 lemmy.world GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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#50 · Quote Reply

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.

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daddycool lemmy.world daddycool@lemmy.world
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#51 · Quote Reply

But the pay will increase :D. Right? Right?

Yes.

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