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.

    • s_i_m_s@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sometimes I wonder what they would do if you could make endless perfect copies of objects like you can mp3s.

      Dududdo you wouldn’t copy a car. You wouldn’t copy a cheeseburger Copying is a crime.

      Like remember it’s only been recently that it became possible to make endless copies of media at effectively no cost.

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        10 months ago

        They would figure it out some way to enforce artificial scarcity. Can’t have poor people getting free stuff without being worthy.

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        10 months ago

        From the employee perspective yes, we have to work 4 days a week, but from the employer perspective, there’s no need to work 4 days a week. In fact, it’s even less productive than working 5 days a week.