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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Say goodbye to working Fridays—or possibly ever working at all. That’s the future that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts AI could bring.

"could" doing heavy amounts of lifting here. We all know capital would never let it.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

There’s one thing I do believe him on. He will get rid of many people’s jobs.

[–] juice_@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We'll be paid full time wages though, right? anakin-padme-2

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

I am not surprised to find out that Jeff Bezos doesn't actually understand how capitalism works.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

porky-happy: “Why aren’t we doing that now? What’s going to keep us from going back on this promise? No more questions, poor. Just go back to starving!”

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

3 years until mars. 3 years until agi. 3 years until post scarcity. 3 years until living wage.

Yada yada blah blah

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When these CEOs make this claim, they are envisioning the white-collar tech and finance class from which they spawned to be receiving this benefit, and not the working class that is actually essential to a functioning society.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yup that's the rub. AI is really good at doing white collar office work, so I'm picturing it in their minds those jobs being outsourced to grok and themselves paid to sit at home. MEANWHILE the actual backbreaking work that keep society functioning, like say garbage removal, will remain in place and probably the workers will just be enslaved with bomb collars.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I sure am glad I live in a society where not being able to work isn't a problem and won't result in me being homeless and starving!

[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Don't worry RFK will have work camps for you.

[–] DoofusAscendant@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the thing people have been predicting since the 1920's is surely be at hand thanks to this latest productivity-increasing innovation.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

And the hundredfold productivity increases we've seen since then have always gone hand-in-hand with equivalent wage and standard of living increases clueless

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Oh fuck oh shit our bullshit of telling investors that our technology is so powerful that it frightens us is backfiring! Quick, switch to capitalist utopian bullshit!

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

This seems like the porky-happy version of "A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!"

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

low key feels like he's trying to tap into the trad crowd by framing it as the return of single income households

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

They are framing life in the pod as single income.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

he said eager at the thought of a race for who will take the least amount of money to work the job of 5

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

fewer people will need to work, creating a labor shortage

um what

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

You'll be so efficient thanks to AI, you'll be able to work 2 jobs, 3 days each for a total of 6 days with a generous 1 day a week off!

Single income household? You bet. Thanks to job losses you'll be lucky for one person in a household to have a job, forget about two.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

That monster isn't even useful as humus. What a waste of oxygen on Earth.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

immense poverty incoming?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Why's he morphing into Mr. Clean?

[–] wax@feddit.nu 1 points 2 weeks ago