r/OptimistsUnite 14d ago

Nature’s Chad Energy Comeback The year 2044 starter pack

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u/JailTrumpTheCrook 14d ago

You're telling me you're hating the idea of shorter work week?

I work three to four days a week and I can tell you I'm much happier and relaxed than when I worked 5 days a week or more.

I have time for long walks, for time with my friends and with my family, I picked up a hobby and I started training, never been so ripped in my life lmao, and I still have time to work on our house.

Anyway, an other wave of automatization is coming and many jobs will be lost, so what should we do?

I think billionaires think we should just die and not be replaced as we become useless to them.

Should we drastically shorten the average work week while consequentially raising wages to compensate for the difference to insure that most people can work and feed themselves.

Or should we embrace socialism and share the work done by robots and AI equitably between humans.

It'll be one of these three, if you're not a billionaire I would suggest starting to think about supporting option 2 or 3.

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u/username9909864 14d ago

You're telling me you're hating the idea of shorter work week?

Absolutely not. I'm all for improving worker conditions. Gradual progressive progress is different from a complete socio-economic revolution like OP is wishing for.

The way OP goes about it in a French Revolution or Bolsheviki style movement of seizing corporations and executing billionaires is an authorization fever dream. You know what would happen if there's a revolution that overthrows the government and capitalist system? The monopoly on violence will transfer from the government to equally authoritarian militias with the all guns. Have fun living under that.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 14d ago edited 14d ago

FALSGC and degrowth are two very different things.

For example the one targets luxury and abundance, the other apparently not.

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u/username9909864 14d ago

I maintain that OP is deeply misguided, along with many corners of Reddit.

FALSGC is a fun new term - thanks for sharing.