AI is a sort of work hours veblen good. As it automates things, people working long hours becomes more important for status. Hence 996 and the year of agents happening at the same time.
I can only assume there were similar reports during the industrial revolution. It doesn't exactly work that way.
Not to mention that AI doesn't solve any of the problems I have that lead to a longer work day and week. It's the meetings, discussions, debates, and politics of it all. Doing the actual work has never been the problem, it's everything in between so we know what work to do.
along with other changes when "the economic problem" is solved:
> When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.
If we let billionaries to steer it, the 2-day work week will be the average of 7 workers getting unemployed while 2 remain working their asses off at 996 journeys.
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[ 12.8 ms ] story [ 26.9 ms ] threadNot to mention that AI doesn't solve any of the problems I have that lead to a longer work day and week. It's the meetings, discussions, debates, and politics of it all. Doing the actual work has never been the problem, it's everything in between so we know what work to do.
the economic shift would be staggering; the increase in wage; or the decrease in cost required is boggling.
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
along with other changes when "the economic problem" is solved:
> When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.