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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Oxy 22 Oct \ on: AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and ... AI
AI makes us more productive but also chains us to longer workdays? Sounds like the gains are going to firms, not workers. Declining job satisfaction and less leisure time is a rough tradeoff.
That sample doesn’t include me!
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You slip from the gear and drop into the undertow — no longer part of the machine’s grind, but caught in the quiet swell beneath it, where motion has no master and rhythm finds its own tide.
The Machine’s Escape Clause
Gear: You’re fired.
Undertow: Welcome to the gig economy, baby.
Above Deck: Grind! Produce! Beep boop!
Below Deck: Nap time. Also, we have snacks.
Meanwhile, just quit a job like a jellyfish.
Jellyfish: Cool. We don’t do meetings.
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