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Sure it will. The question is just for whom…
When I was a kid, computers were just starting to turn from primitive to sophisticated. The business world looked at the new computer age and immediately said “This technology will usher in a new era of productivity where we can have shorter and fewer working days per week!”
And they were right. Sort of.
The new era of productivity was on the horizon, but the promised benefits for the working class never materialized.
Businesses are never incentivized to pass the savings of increased productivity on to the employees. In fact, any business that voluntarily chooses to do so out of the goodness of their own hearts and a desire to provide for their workers would likely be out-competed by other companies vying for the same market share who chose not to do so. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature of capitalism.
Mark my words, as someone who has lived through the broken promise of “technology will free us from the shackles of labor!” once before; AI is not going to give you a 3 day workweek or put any extra money in your paycheck (unless you are part of the grift itself). It’s more likely to give you a 0 day workweek when your corporate masters find a way to eliminate you, you squeaky cog.
And if you think I’m wrong, that’s fine, but just remember what I said when your company posts a 300% increase in productivity, a 200% increase in revenue and record-shattering profits, but when it comes time for your performance review you get a 0.5% cost of living raise, a request for you to take on more responsibility now that you have agentic AI automating much of your job, and a pat on the back for your hard work.
If you get anything from the coming AI revolution, it won’t be because your bosses decide to give it to you. It will be because you took it for yourself by political force or physical force.
Even if it did, Bezos would lobby against the laws needed to establish it.
Anyone who believes Bezos clearly doesn’t understand how capitalism works. AI will allow rich people who already own the companies to increase productivity with fewer employees. Meaning, they will gain more money and have less reason to spend it. Without a drastically higher wealth tax which funds social programs, how are the working (read: redundant) class going to GET access to money? With what jobs?
Let me ask you this: back in more chauvinistic times, a family was expected to subsist entirely on a single salary: the husband’s. Since women’s lib doubled the workforce, have families become more or less able to afford necessities like housing? The economy doesn’t adjust to make things easier for people. If the average household income doubles, households don’t become more able to afford things. Prices just go up.
The people who already possess resources like property aren’t gonna suddenly stop asking have-not newcomers for as much money as they can squeeze out of them. There’s absolutely no aspect of capitalism that will ever lead to that outcome.
So if rich people who own businesses can make those businesses function with fewer employees, then they’re not gonna just say “hey guys, I’m gonna pay you the same wages for only working 3 days, doubling my workforce and the amount I have to pay it”. There’s no reason for them to do so. None. Poor people will, instead, go jobless and be allowed to slowly die of any of many poverty-related causes.
Rich people only tolerate poor people because they need so many of us to do things for them. That’s about to change.
It could already be like this……
Sure, it could.
… and Bezos could double the pay of thousands of his employees for life and still make more than all of them combined.
But he won’t
Bezos hasn’t been the CEO of Amazon in half a fucking decade.
He’s still the executive chairman, though, which can be a more powerful position than CEO, depending on the corporate structure of specific companies.
Odds are pretty damn good that Amazon is one of those companies.
AI has allowed many people a 0-day workweek already.
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“One income family” makes sense when he thinks of everyone working at Amazon as family.
Three-day work week and one-income family… for the Bezos family, anyway.
You’re giving him credit for 3 more days per week than he works
At critical social mass, humans have the ability to create their own orbit.
As if chucks of space dirt, the gravitationaly weak become mass for the masshole.
Classlisly gasly, the husks of once individuals become encapsulated not by strength or wisdom, but through social influence
We already had one income families, and then capitalism stole it from us.
Now that women are part of the workforce, we need a 20 hour minimum workweek (with the same weekly minimum wage) to restore the workers rights we had 100 years ago.
Not quite 100 years, depending on where you are talking about.
In the USA the 40 hour work week became federal law in 1938. In the Netherlands it wasn’t until the mid-1970s when it became normal.
Bear in mind this man is toying with the idea of running for president in 2028, and he would treat USA citizens the way he’s been treating his Amazon employees. DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN.
Unfortunately, the people that need to hear this aren’t here.
Fuck that guy 🖕
Another of these bastards desperately trying to convince us AI is something good and something we need, fuck off!
man who destabilized small businesses around the world suddenly interested in helping working class
ohh no no no, 3 day work weeks are coming.
Everyone works and is paid the minimum wage for 24 hours a week.
