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Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com)
There could be benefits from artificial intelligence, self-made billionaire, Alibaba chairman Jack Ma said, as people are freed to work less and travel more. From a report: "I think in the next 30 years, people only work four hours a day and maybe four days a week," Ma said. "My grandfather worked 16 hours a day in the farmland and [thought he was] very busy. We work eight hours, five days a week and think we are very busy." He added that if people today are able to visit 30 places, in three decades it will be 300 places. Still, Ma said the rich and poor -- the workers and the bosses -- will be increasingly defined by data and automation unless governments show more willingness to make "hard choices." "The first technology revolution caused World War I," he said, "The second technology revolution caused World War II. This is the third technology revolution."
Or as it is currently known, "DMV" or "The Congress"...
Hey I'm already doing that! I mean I really only do about 16 hours of effective work a week, but get paid for the full 40. Is that different than most people really?
No one will have full time employment, everybody will be working multiple jobs just to rent some shitty hole in the wall and buy trash food
Meanwhile Quintillionaires will be jerking themselves off in space
FUTURE!
Highly unlikely that would happen.
Instead Quintillionaires would hire prostitutes to do that for them.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Fortunately, in 40 years I'll be almost 80, and only 20 years away from being able to finally retire.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
There is no fucking way any employer will EVER let someone work 16 hours a day and pay them what they're currently paying them to work 40.
If they're paying someone to work 40 hours a day, someone is getting scammed.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch