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.

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

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            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.

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      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.

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