Automation and AI are taking over tasks that once required human effort. So why are we still working the same hours?

Shouldn’t automation reduce our workloads and give us more time for creativity, family, and community?

Are we stuck in a system that refuses to evolve because it’s built to benefit a few? Let’s rethink the role of tech in our work lives.

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People have been working roughly the same hours for decades despite all the time-saving devices that have come along. The idea isn't to reduce the hours worked, it's to increase the productivity. No matter how advanced the hamster wheel is that we're running in, we're supposed to just keep running faster.

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Exactly. We will just get more responsibility if anything

Automation isn’t ubiquitous yet. We are in the starting phase of Agentic Ai. Likely not going to see a significant reduction in hours till it’s mainstream.

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Automation is the key for disparate data sources to talk to each other.

Because workers never realize those gains.

An accountant with excel can do the work of 20 accounts without…they sure as shit ain’t working less than 40 hours.

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This is exactly it.

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This is where the strength of unions might be missed. Unfortunately, even where they still hold sway, they're probably not innovative enough to seize the moment: bargain for fewer hours, better conditions, workforce development, and ownership stakes in the tech that will eventually replace the workers – use the domain expertise needed to train the models, the manual labor to build and maintain data centers, political influence, and unionize tech workers as leverage.

The rise of cushy tech salaries made us blind to need for unions

That is a nice thought OP, however if that were to happen then I imagine that companies would cut salaries because they would only want to pay for the hours that you actually work. So it really seems like AI would hurt people in the long run if that were to happen.

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