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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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My argument is that a lot of what we consider "productive" actually is not at the consumption for which it is produced isn't intrinsic, but artificially induced to produce more. Production became its own end under Capitalism rather than a mean to satisfy needs.
Also we need to consider, see the farming example, how much we currently buy instead of do ourselves for a lack of time and energy. As for the risk of starvation if it wasnt for modern means of agriculture i disagree in part. In many industrialized countries the majority of agricultural land use is for animal farming. Aside from being destructive to the environment and climate, the overconsumption of meat leads to more diseases like colon cancer.
With your example of internet, how much bandwidth is used to feed people advertisement so they consume more? How much computing hardware is wasted on LLMs and other slop?
Capitalism is self reinforcing. Once you break the cycle you start seeing how much of it just goes to reproduce the capitalist system, rather than serve any human needs.