God, imagine a 30-hour workweek! A thing of the utopian future, right? With Jetsonesque robots completing huge chunks of our work for us so we can kick back and enjoy the latest entertainment?
Well, what if I told you the Senate passed a bill to establish such a workweek back when the latest entertainment was whatever FDR had on his mind for that night’s fireside chat?“Unbelievably, 84 years later, despite massive growth in technology and worker productivity,” they say, “nothing has changed.” So bring on the 32-hour workweek!Sanders and Fain’s piece is packed with stats that’ll make you shake your standing desk with rage.
But what of those Jetsonian bots doing our work? Once they get smart enough, won’t they replace us entirely?Take the example of customer support agents, often invoked as the first obsolescence of an AI revolution: Eduardo writes that one study showed huge productivity gains when these human agents worked side by side with AI assistants.As the cast for “2020: The Sequel” rounds out, with the original leads set to reprise their roles despite audience distaste, only a few slots remain uncast.
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