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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 49 points 2 months ago

I am sure it is for the CEO but for everyone else it is endless crunch time.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can’t wait for my rent to go down 40% with my salary

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago
[–] greenbelt@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

are you referencing the "housing crisis"?

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 months ago

3 day week means they don’t pay you for 2 days.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What they're not telling you is that weeks will now be two days long and you'll owe your employer for that missing day.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or you will need to pick up 3 other jobs to make ends meet. 3 days at slave camp 1, 3 days at slave camp 2 over lapping 3 days for slave camp 3

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some of us may die but just think of all the value we're adding for the shareholders.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Silly me, I forgot about my only role about making the line go up, off to slave camp 4 :(

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't MS just put out a RTO mandate like a week ago? Sure they'll totally let people have 3 day work weeks.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zoom was one of the first to do the RTO...while the CEO was not in the office.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

... And while earning a shit-ton for being a meeting app far more reliable and even-sounding than fucking teams.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Are there still idiots listening to the masturbatory fantasies of CEO's?

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are people just gonna be paid for less hours?

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

Well yes, but at an hourly rate.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Narrator: They weren’t

[–] necrobius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Hahahahahano

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Yes, I'm sure if AI makes a company's workforce 40% more efficient, then CEOs will give employees 40% more free time and not just layoff 40% if their workforce.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

And the rest of us will be homeless and dead on the street.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This is hyperbolic bullshit. It’s also a warning that executives and their boards are doing their best to will us into permanent serfdom if they get their way.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

some people are already working 0-day workweeks.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's literally the only way for capitalism to keep going...

When there's not enough jobs to earn money for resources shit hits the fan.

To compensate for technological advances the standard work week needs to shrink while wages at least stay the same. That way there's more jobs.

It's literally the whole point of the Luddite movement when the auto look showed up.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

But what if our oligarchs just let 40% of us die, instead? Do they even notice a difference? They probably make more money.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 months ago

The whole pyramid scheme requires the poor to buy things, and collapses when they don’t.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Gotta boost the casket industry somehow.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it's dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.

basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that's in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).

[–] greenbelt@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago

taxing the rich

Where exactly is that happening besides western Europe? I do not see that happening in the USA at the moment.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

So, distribution of surplus value is on the table, again.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The smartest, most technically knowledgeable one of them is Gates. The retirement age dork who's wife divorced him over Epstein and never had his buddy Woz's skills.

These rich dipshit are just pumping their investments.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm sure they already work 3 days a week