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Jack Ma Says 12-Hour Work Week could be the Norm

posted by martyb on Monday October 14 2019, @02:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the wages-vs-prices dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 14 2019, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday October 14 2019, @05:06PM (#907030)

    I met a "big company owner" a few months before he launched a "revolutionary" product, he and all his friends thought it would be changing the world. The numbers made sense, the cost benefit was all there, all it required was for everybody to spring an extra $5K per person for this thing and such wonderfulness would ensue.

    Yeah, everybody's got an extra $5K to spend and then wait for the world to change. Seeing things from the heliport of his mountain top house, where his big sacrifice was having to remove the blades from his 2nd helicopter so they would both fit inside at the same time... it's easy to see the disconnect.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @03:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @03:04AM (#907224)

    a "revolutionary" product, ...$5K per person

    Segway? Or RealDoll?