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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: 1) by khallow on Monday October 14 2019, @03:45PM (8 children)
The rich are different than you and me. They have money.
My opinion of the disconnect is simply, if I can live on 12 hours (which actually in my present situation, I could do and still save a modest amount of money), then I can do a lot more than live on 50-60 hours of work a week, even if it takes working several jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @03:52PM (6 children)
Poor khallow, working long hours for a life style he'll never have time for. And he still doesn't get it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday October 14 2019, @04:00PM (2 children)
At least in the meantime, I get to putter about in Yellowstone. I don't know what I want in the future, I just know I won't get it now, if I don't save some money. I have far greater freedom by saving money now than if I didn't.
And what really would I spend it on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @10:48PM (1 child)
How's golfing in Yellowstone at night, after you wasted your life time doing regressions and correlations all day?
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Monday October 14 2019, @11:33PM
Pretty sweet, but you have to look for the frisbees sometimes.
(Score: 2, Informative) by ChrisMaple on Monday October 14 2019, @04:06PM (2 children)
How sad it is, to be able to afford good food, good clothing, and live in a nice house in a good neighborhood.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 14 2019, @04:41PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @10:51PM
Right, because one's purpose in life is solely to consume now and pay for it with your future 20 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @02:55PM
And you therefore take away the jobs of 3-4 others. Or you gain the resources that 4-5 others could be having.
So... 4 families can all survive together, or just 1 can. (Or, the more likely proposition, you will be taxed the value of 2 of those jobs so that you still get 3x the value and four others get one half the value each).
In short, you're greedy.