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.

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    But are we still paid the same? Otherwise it would be working 2 jobs which one during “weekends”. Much worse.

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      8 months ago

      “where you only have to work three days a week” seems to imply that you will be paid the same. Or perhaps more logically food would be cheaper. I imagine this will hurt the agriculture sector though, at least in the short term.

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        8 months ago

        But it would double the amount of jobs in other sectors as well.

        Lots of industries can’t just stop 4 days a week.

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          8 months ago

          I think a lot of industries that aren’t attractive right now would be more attractive with shorter hours. Which would mean they could hire more people.

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            8 months ago

            Exactly. Would require we invest in educating people properly rather than setting them up for minimum wage jobs because we need them filled.

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              8 months ago

              Some of them could be filled by people right now, such as teachers and nurses who left the field because they felt overworked (and underpaid).