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Touting "three day workweeks" for Americans is a clever way of saying "we are downsizing your position from full-time to part-time so that we don't have to pay as much in benefits".

off topic but what are peptides? are they why all these dudes all of sudden have necks thicker than their heads?

economy-rattling bubbles caused by widespread financial fraud and product misrepresentation are good, actually especially for the already heavily marginalized, I'm told

AI will usher in a 3-day workweek. Ok, what he's not saying is that employees will be paid accordingly. Why should you pay an employee who with the use of AI can do the work of 5 days in 3 for 5 days? Especially since tokens don't grow on trees.

Just to be perfectly clear and since there is little nuance here: I am not defending that. But if Bezos-types tout the amount of work hours a new tech will save, they talk not about workers having to do less, they talk about saving on labor costs / paying people less.

He's not wrong...about that part Cable companies took in vast sums to run cable all over the US, went bankrupt, but the cables are still there I think it's a strategy

I’m just glad I don’t get boxes with his vile company’s name on them anymore. Who needs that in their life?

Here's exactly how it will be used: instead of your boss hounding you at 2am for that spreadsheet, it will be his AI agent.

It's fun how all this billionaires keep saying how their AI is good for normal people without giving any actual details on how that would become true. Absolutely similar to corrupted populist politicians

How many times have they told us the productivity increase will allow us to do the same work in less time, only to find that we still are stuck at work for the same time and are expected to do more work. Every time. But this time, Lucy won’t pull the football away. Right.

I have a friend who was just laid off from Amazon after 11 years there. I have heard many stories. I can assure you that Bezos has no interest in ANYONE working only three days a week. Except maybe himself.

Ha ha ha absolutely not. The computer made us more productive than ever and should have cut our hours down too. But no, we're still doing 40 a week, and so it will be with """AI""". Productivity keeps going up, but your benefits never do.

"COULD" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I COULD make a billion dollars. I COULD develop 6 pack abs. I COULD cure cancer. I COULD write the great American novel. I COULD go on tour with Beyonce. See how much heavy lifting the simple past tense CAN do?

Does Jeff think AI is going to come and lift the fifty pound bags for me at work two days a week or will it just run things so well that it will destroy my job entirely?

My thoughts exactly. He said nothing about whether or not people would be able to feed their families. Yeah sure, you can work three days a week, but everyone in your household, including your 6yr old, will need to work.