I mean honestly, no shit it won’t shorten the work week, because no technological advancement has ever made us less busy. Only more. His reason is wrong and is just a bald faced lie to cover that he thinks it’s a great way to milk out more blood from the stones these places are built on.
The tech bro billionaires have a bright future planned for humanity. When jobs disappear, they’re hoping we all start fighting and killing each other until disasters reduce the global Population. Meanwhile, they will be shacked up in their remote luxury resorts riding out events until there are a few million people left who can then work as their very own serfs
Well yeah, i enjoy being busy. It’s even kinda necessary for me due to ADHD, if i sit still with nothing to do for too long, days to weeks, early symptoms of depression start to slowly creep in which will get worse over time.
I’d just like to be busy with my interests and hobbies, not damned work. Even though I actually do like my work.
We like to be busy, not exploited and not waste our lives doing meaningless drivel.
Billionaires will only read your first sentence
Now who has an attention deficit?
I would play games and work on my many many side projects. I’d have so much more time for that (and let’s be honest, maybe some games) if we had 4 day work weeks!
last time I checked, Sam Altman was not an authority on humans
Is he even a human?
yes, they are in fact all just humans
Billionaires are a different species that should be hunted to extinction
Altman? Nah mofo trailer trash should be dead guy
I hate being busy.
Yet more evidence I am not human.
What’s that? The essential promise of AI that people cared about (real people, not rich assholes) was a lie the whole time? I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Man’s desperate to block out the howling void where human interaction should be
The only people I know who are keen on going to work have been doing 40 hour weeks for decades. It’s not enjoyment, it’s indoctrination. Enjoying being busy is in no way equivalent to enjoying sitting in a office hearing Janet say “Someone has a case of the Mondays!”.
I really wondering what the rich taste like.
Do all the spite and evilness will have an effect in the taste of their meat?
Billionaires secretly enjoy guillotines.
I think this is true to an extent. It’s why I don’t give much Creedence to the “no one would work under communism” rhetoric.
That being said, there’s a difference between keeping busy with hobbies and building stuff for myself or to eventually sell, and making my employer money.
This relates to the thing I am most confused by in today’s business climate. Companies face brutal competition, and tremendous pressure to “innovate” (screw the customer more), and yet every ounce of research on the question suggests that rather than pushing people to work longer and longer hours, they can get the most out of their workforce by mandating proper sleep, time walking/in nature/exercise, non-continuous working periods, and comfort items like faster computers, better chairs, higher quality food, etc.
Why isn’t any company ruthlessly pursuing efficiency by giving bonuses for sleeping well? It would be super creepy and authoritarian to mandate sleep monitoring, but I don’t see why that stops them, when it doesn’t appear to in any other direction. Or even simpler, requiring shorter working hours, but expecting the same/more output?
Is it this exact attitude, that somehow happy workers with free time will get up to no good, or become depressed, or feel less committed or something?
Bro read about bullshit jobs and thought it sounds like winning formula
Every time I think Altman has maxxed the “I am a complete fucking tool and a garbage human” metric, he manages to set the bar a little bit higher. It’s as impressive as it is obnoxious and aggravating.
Well, I guess the joke is that people who stay in the workplace will have to work even harder, but for the same or less salary, checking the work of AI agents.
