[HN Gopher] JPMorgan CEO says our children will only work 3.5 da...
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JPMorgan CEO says our children will only work 3.5 days a week
thanks to AI
Author : kakokeko
Score : 5 points
Date : 2023-10-03 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.businessinsider.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com)
| ClassyJacket wrote:
| No they won't. We'll work 5 days a week for less money and the
| rich will get richer.
| nine_zeros wrote:
| I don't know why this is getting downvoted. This is exactly how
| the system works.
|
| Every productivity gain is only meant to make workers faster
| which earns profits faster for the executives and shareholders.
|
| With the prospect of faster work, execs and shareholders are
| salivating at the thought of grinding workers more in the same
| 40 hours/week but earn more profits for the same amount of
| hours.
|
| If we want our children to live a better life than us, we need
| massive changes in laws (healthcare, exempt workers etc.).
| deprecative wrote:
| We were thought to work three days a week because of all the
| productivity gains we made. The time we'd be down to three
| days? The 1970s. Wealth always demands more wealth and the
| rest of us need to be good labor-piggies and do that work.
| Yeah, they can get away with doing more with less because AI
| but they'll keep on with the skeleton crew they can and carry
| on. Rinse repeat capitalism.
| quantified wrote:
| His children won't need to work. He's not looking at the rest
| of us.
| [deleted]
| quantified wrote:
| If I'm a farmer, doctor, teacher, soldier, construction laborer,
| nurse, miner, or other actual work worker, I should realize this
| ain't my kids he's talking about.
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