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Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy
(www.techspot.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Literally my first thought when reading that headline
I don't need a job to be busy.
Ooooh I just love these tone-deaf sentences.
It's just ... something else altogether!
Almost correct. Being busy for ourselves instead of for Company™ to be more profitable.
Good one. Need more of these
It'll shorten our lives we get it already. Fuck off AI gangsters.
Oligarchs say the darndest things.
I have a suggestion Mr. Altman! How about we work you to bones 70 hours a week without any off days? Would you secretly enjoy that?
There are things I secretly enjoy, but Sam Altman probably is better off not knowing what those are.
Then you telling him is a moral imperative.
I keep busy making widgets because I need the money to survive. If it were not for needing money to survive I would keep just as busy, but I'd be doing other things. This sam guy doesn't seem to posses even a basic understanding of logic.
No surprise a lizard doesn't know how humans function.
I don't know if Sam Altman wants to discover that humans secretly enjoy revenge instead, but shortening the workweek will achieve that goal.
With the amount of productivity gains we made the past few decades we could all easily work 4 days a week. Except all of that extra productivity has gone fully to the 1% instead of to the general public and infrastructure we need.