alt Hacker NewsI think it’s pretty naive to ask your employer for a day off. As experienced by companies, the market is more competitive than ever. Whoever slows down will get eaten by some hungry upstart that is willing to work 996 to eat the incumbent’s lunch. It’s a Prisoner’s Dilemma.
The only way to get this outcome is to coordinate at a level higher than individual market participants.
In other words, get your government to implement UBI - tax all companies (or if AI really takes off, just compute) and redistribute to the people.
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> I think it’s pretty naive to ask your employer for a day off.
Someone said the same before 1938, probably [1]
I think it's possible that AI will bring as much of a shift to our lives as the industrial revolution did, so it might be necessary to make some adjustments, just like we did back then.
[1] https://www.history.com/articles/five-day-work-week-labor-mo...
By the amount of money thrown out the AI window nowadays, a day off, or hiring a few more folks to cover for those days off and more, seems like the much cheaper option. But that's only my naive impression right?
UBI without many other anti-capitalist reforms is just a subsidy paid directly to your landlord.
lol, this government is going to just throw anyone trying into the meat grinder.
The only way to do this is to bypass the authorities.
Whoever slows down will get eaten by some hungry upstart that is willing to work 996 to eat the incumbent’s lunch.
Is this true? There are a lot of low-productivity and zombie companies trudging through year after year.