{"id":5535,"date":"2023-12-12T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:36:40","slug":"ai-and-the-4-day-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2023\/12\/12\/ai-and-the-4-day-week\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and the 4-day week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hamilton Nolan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/to-whom-go-the-spoils\">&#8220;To Whom Go The Spoils&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Profits go to investors. That\u2019s how it works. The nature of a modern corporation is not \u201cLet\u2019s see how we can divide the proceeds of this business most fairly.\u201d It is \u201cThis business is a machine designed to maximize profits for investors.\u201d The maximum possible exploitation of the labor force is a built-in part of that system. [&#8230;] Why would a modern, efficient company choose to distribute its productivity gains in the form of a four day work when they could, instead, reserve those productivity gains for investors, by laying workers off, to decrease labor costs, or by having everyone continue working just as much, so that the AI produced a gain on top of what currently exists? That is what they will do. Do not fool yourself. Do not be naive. Companies don\u2019t give shit away for free. That\u2019s not how this machine works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton Nolan, &#8220;To Whom Go The Spoils&#8221;: &#8220;Profits go to investors. That\u2019s how it works. The nature of a modern corporation is not \u201cLet\u2019s see how we can divide the proceeds of this business most fairly.\u201d It is \u201cThis business is a machine designed to maximize profits for investors.\u201d The maximum possible exploitation of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2023\/12\/12\/ai-and-the-4-day-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI and the 4-day week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}