"A society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably OK," Bill Gates said.

Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea::“A society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Bill Gates said.

        • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          Unions are tragically toothless when the federal government can just decide a planned strike is illegal.

          • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            11 months ago

            More unions need to coordinate and actually create threat of a general strike. The UAW ending their contract on May Day and calling for others to do the same actually seems like a pretty good way to leverage power. I don’t think the government can move quick enough to block that kind of collective action.

            • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              Biden literally signed an executive order blocking railway workers from striking. If he has that kind of authority and is willing to use it in that way, then all he has to do is make an executive order declaring all strikes illegal. Also, not trying to be a naysayer, but a general strike is a pipe dream. You can barely get people in the same union to cooperate, let alone multiple unions cooperating for a general.

      • sock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        yea! lets hope really hard and politicians might start taking hope as bribes for legislature

    • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      And their decisions equate to: how can we employ the fewest number of people with the least benefits and make the most profit off what we’re selling?

      But definitely don’t consider that under- or unemployed people don’t have the money to spend on making those profits happen.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      916·
      11 months ago

      Bill Gates isn’t making the decisions anymore and hasn’t been for decades now