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Billionaire Jack Ma, long an outspoken advocate for China's extreme work culture, says that people should be able to work just 12 hours a week with the benefits of artificial intelligence.
People could work as little as three days a week, four hours a day with the help of technology advances and a reform in education systems, the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai Thursday. He spoke on-stage with Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. who is building manufacturing facilities in the city.
[...] Just this year, Ma endorsed the China tech sector's infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine, so common it earned the moniker 996. In one blog post, China's richest man this year dismissed people who expect a typical eight-hour office lifestyle, defying a growing popular backlash.
"I don't worry about jobs," Ma said on Thursday, making an optimistic case that AI will help humans rather than just eliminate their work. "Computers only have chips, men have the heart. It's the heart where the wisdom comes from."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Coward, Anonymous on Monday October 14 2019, @03:28AM (6 children)
Well, I've heard of brain-dead managers, but not of a CEO advocating for them so forcefully.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday October 14 2019, @02:58PM
-1 Redundant
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 14 2019, @03:47PM (4 children)
Don't forget the China factor. Theoretically, they are still on the way to "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mykl on Monday October 14 2019, @11:17PM (3 children)
I disagree. Converting their economy to market capitalism has effectively eliminated the Communist theory of abilities and needs. Just look at Jack Ma!
Modern Communism is really more about maintaining a one-party grip on political power, for the sake of power. More information can be found in a useful reference guide called "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @12:11AM
There is a reason 1984 is not banned in China, while one of his other books, Animal Farm is.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:07PM
That sounds nearly identical to Modern Democracy.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:17PM
That is all that the major examples of communism we have ever had have been about. There was very little of Marx's communism involved once someone solidified power.