2 days of nothing but eating the rich sounds nice.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Let's round it down to one day, a year. And call it the Purge
Not one mention of UBI or any other real-world solution to this "problem".
Lmao there's no way that'll ever happen. If the greedy capital class can extort more value out of your free time, they will.
Lolol. Yeah right. For who exactly? The ruling class that doesn't do shit already. If it were to go that way then the bottom 90% of will stave and die
Ask him if it is two days work week with full pay and benefits. Yeah I didn't think so. Why give that money to your workers when shareholders could generate more revenue. Fuckers.
I thought this was an interview from like the late 2010s at least, not published today.
That's an insane take given how worker displacement from AI is actually unfolding.
The two day workweek:
- day 1: Monday-Thursday
- day 2: Friday-Saturday
So umm does that mean AI will take your coffee order and make the drink and cash you out? I didn't think so. Manual labor will still be needed 24/7, but now their bosses are AI bots that don't know human connection; oh wait my human bosses never had that ability either. Who the fuck allowed companies the privilege to post new schedules literally the week of or call you in on your days off. We need serious unions and not AI
The coffee analogy is probably not a good one. The generations that grow up with enshittified tech bullshit are complete shutins. They'll be happy enough with a machine making their coffee. AI isn't even necessarily involved here.
But people still have to build these machines. They have to maintain them. Someone has to grow, harvest, wash and roast the beans. Some of that can probably be done by machines, but not all of it.
The thing is, even if AI replaces everyone, there'll be no more consumers able to buy things anymore. There literally won't be an economy anymore. I fail to see how that helps capitalists. What is the plan here? Billionaires are a bunch of fucking weirdos, all of them.
Yeah because they cracked down on the h1b visas, no more cheap foreign labor for the tech companies..CEO - let’s move to AI.
and they "fired" laid off too many current tech employees/citizens too.
How in the world would this lead to any reduction in work days, let alone a 2 day work week? Employers going to more than double everyone's wages out of the goodness of their hearts? Is inflation going to be reversed? Is the government going to pay a universal income? And how does AI make any of that happen? This notion is ridiculous.
When does it go from filling the trough (i.e., my email and teams inboxes) with slop to doing something other than writing "write-only" documents with disclaimers about how I have to check them for accuracy?
Seriously, AI is making work worse for me and everyone with whom I work except a couple of pointy-headed managers who think producing incorrect status emails full of emojis is doing a job.
It's like automated enshittification.
I think it was Buckminster Fuller? And Bertrand Russell? Who made similar predictions. What about the last hundred years had indicated to Mr. Gates that the number of hours worked will change?
“There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.” ― Bertrand Russell
Lmao k
I predict bill gates will be dead.
he also associated with epstein too, trying to deflect attention away from himself.