Jaelyn 🏳️‍🌈Nov 28, 2023
I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.
Show threadThe Mo Nov 29, 2023

@jaelisp Fuck AI.

Support workers by supporting unions.

THATS how we will get a 4 day work week and much more.

The only thing majority of AI is being used for now is to do more harm than good to our society and our planet, being influenced by the corrupt monsters who think they are our betters.

Show threadCount Regal InkwellNov 29, 2023
@Chromino @jaelisp The 5-day work week was won by fighting, not "technological progress". People died to get us where we are.

It is naïve and stupid to think that the 4 day work week (or anything else really) will come without a fight. We should count ourselves fortunate if they don't send in the army to shell unionized workers, as they did to those demanding the 5 day work week back in the day.

Left to their own, the Industrialists that own the machines will never let an advancement in automation result in less work or more wealth for their slaves. Trickle down only works when the rich are bleeding.
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Nov 29, 2023

@VinesNFluff @Chromino @jaelisp

Note how the benefits in gains in productivity shifted away from worker pay after the most notable tax cuts for the rich, both post-JFK and especially during the Reagan years.

#TaxTheRich #economics

Show threadBill Seitz
@johnlogic @VinesNFluff @Chromino @jaelisp some links/quotes picking at this framing
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GDI
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