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.

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    11 months ago

    Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho - like you’d have 0 manufacturing employees.

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      11 months ago

      “machines can make all the food and stuff”

      Don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have maintainence and repair robots as well, so what manufacturing employees?

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        11 months ago

        There will, for all of the foreseeable future, be a human element in every manufacturing or farming process.

        AI can beat replace repeatable behaviors. There will always be someone on-site to address outlier situations.

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            11 months ago

            The point is salaried workers generally would make less.

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            11 months ago

            Sure but they’re not gonna want to do it as a salaried employee, because the random overtime required will be more valuable.

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          11 months ago

          That really depends on weather we can create AGI or not. Might come sonner than you think.

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            If we invent AGI all bets are off for everything though. That’s a discovery on par with fire or the wheel.