Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea::“A society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Bill Gates said.

  • realitista@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Sounds great. Only question is how we get paid well enough to live. A question which went conveniently unasked and unanswered.

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      1 year ago

      We should stop measuring our productivity in hourly and need to go back to salary well paying positions, or everyone needs to share the costs with UBI instead.

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        1 year ago

        Good luck convincing companies to change anything that won’t make them more money. I think the only way it can happen is with UBI, hopefully funded by the hoarded assets of the few biggest companies and billionaires where all the money is getting accumulated.

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          You mean the people who don’t think healthcare should be a right also would not be down with UBI? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.

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        1 year ago

        Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho - like you’d have 0 manufacturing employees.