alt Hacker News> The pitch was that AI would give us our time back
The pitch was that same amount of work would be delivered 10 times faster. Meaning you would do 10 times more work in the same time span.
No employer will ever pitch you 4 hour work week, only Tim Ferriss.
Correct. Too many people are ignorant of the mid 1800s in the US. As industrial technology improved the robber barons reaped massive wealth while the average worker worked 14 hours a day. It took literal wars to get worker rights.