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."

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It's called Shift Work

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Not true (for the US)

[houghi]

In Europe we are working on it (35 workweek. 30 days holiday. Sick days are not holidays, maternity and paternity leave, ...)

In the US, if the current situation is any indication there will be one poor chap working 16 hours a day for 6 days a week for a minimum wage and all the rest will be called unemployed slackers and get nothing.

Re:Not true (for the US)

[Anonymous Coward]

Shorter life expectancy, lower standard of living, lower levels of satisfaction with life, higher levels of obesity, lower levels of literacy, that the kind of 'better off' you're talking about?

Let's deal with the real world, not the one you'd like to be real, shall we?