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Single income was normal two generations ago. It was taken from us because of greed.
In the past it was more because of competition. It’s not that companies started offering less, they just stopped increasing what they would offer, and still got the people they wanted. Because there is always someone more desperate.
More recently it’s been greed. It shows up as sustained high profit margins you’ll see primarily in tech companies. Outside of the tech industry the only issue is how long the market or government takes to correct it. Politics around the oil industry being an example.
Three-day work week and one-income family… for the Bezos family, anyway.
You’re giving him credit for 3 more days per week than he works
At critical social mass, humans have the ability to create their own orbit.
As if chucks of space dirt, the gravitationaly weak become mass for the masshole.
Classlisly gasly, the husks of once individuals become encapsulated not by strength or wisdom, but through social influence
Just a couple more tricks, then we’re on our island babe.
…for just 5 trillion more dollars, we can develop a surgery to make jeff’s eyes be the same size.
An extra .002 Bitcoin can give Jeff a name that isn’t close to Jeffrey.
Edit: for a fun game, try finding real pictures of his eyes from 10+ years ago.
He used to look like a singular spectacled testicle with perpetual pink eye.
AI has allowed many people a 0-day workweek already.
Yes but not for YOU.
he probably means this in an “oh no” way
A pitfall of surrounding yourself with too many yes-men is sounding like an idiot when you tread outside that circle.
That would require either a massive unified movement of the people to fight for workers’ rights and wealth redistribution, massive scaled and well designed goverment regulation, or employers to willingly decide to demand less of their employees and pay them more… by definition, a billionaire is incapable of saying “no… that’s enough return on my investment”. There is no way that they will willingly pay out more than they need to for anything, least of all for part time human labor.
I could surgically attach wings and start to shit glitter.
I won’t, but I could. It’s more possible than anything Jeff Bozos just said.As someone that was just forced to use Amazon’s digital assistant for the items they said were delivered but weren’t, I highly doubt the capability is where he is saying. (I am quitting Amazon, only used them a few times this year, not many options for some stuff out here in the country though.)
They are over their heads in investing in this, and they can’t meet their hype.
If you’re spending more than 35$ shipping can be free anyway. It usually comes early too, sometimes only a day later than 2-day shipping.
Erm, we could already do this without AI :/
ohh no no no, 3 day work weeks are coming.
Everyone works and is paid the minimum wage for 24 hours a week.
Sure, it could.
… and Bezos could double the pay of thousands of his employees for life and still make more than all of them combined.
But he won’t
Bezos hasn’t been the CEO of Amazon in half a fucking decade.
He’s still the executive chairman, though, which can be a more powerful position than CEO, depending on the corporate structure of specific companies.
Odds are pretty damn good that Amazon is one of those companies.
We already had one income families, and then capitalism stole it from us.
Now that women are part of the workforce, we need a 20 hour minimum workweek (with the same weekly minimum wage) to restore the workers rights we had 100 years ago.
Not quite 100 years, depending on where you are talking about.
In the USA the 40 hour work week became federal law in 1938. In the Netherlands it wasn’t until the mid-1970s when it became normal.
Anyone who believes Bezos clearly doesn’t understand how capitalism works. AI will allow rich people who already own the companies to increase productivity with fewer employees. Meaning, they will gain more money and have less reason to spend it. Without a drastically higher wealth tax which funds social programs, how are the working (read: redundant) class going to GET access to money? With what jobs?
Let me ask you this: back in more chauvinistic times, a family was expected to subsist entirely on a single salary: the husband’s. Since women’s lib doubled the workforce, have families become more or less able to afford necessities like housing? The economy doesn’t adjust to make things easier for people. If the average household income doubles, households don’t become more able to afford things. Prices just go up.
The people who already possess resources like property aren’t gonna suddenly stop asking have-not newcomers for as much money as they can squeeze out of them. There’s absolutely no aspect of capitalism that will ever lead to that outcome.
So if rich people who own businesses can make those businesses function with fewer employees, then they’re not gonna just say “hey guys, I’m gonna pay you the same wages for only working 3 days, doubling my workforce and the amount I have to pay it”. There’s no reason for them to do so. None. Poor people will, instead, go jobless and be allowed to slowly die of any of many poverty-related causes.
Rich people only tolerate poor people because they need so many of us to do things for them. That’s about to change.
