Jasmine Sun

I think that it would be better to me to shorten the work week so that people still have jobs.

It's not like 10% of people have jobs and 90% are unemployed.

I would personally rather have a world where 90% are employed, but they have maybe a two days a week work week.

They have a 15 hour work week.

Because again, that still gives you a little bit of leverage.

When you care about these political issues, like do you actually have leverage?

Is there some reason that capital or political, the government has to care about you?

You have some role in the economy.

You also have some purpose.

I think it's better for people to feel like they have a purpose in life.

I think about like shortening the work week and maybe we go from a 40-hour work week to a 30-hour work week to a 20-hour work week as the number of capabilities that AI can do expands and human capabilities expand.

in a comparative sense, decrease.

So shortening the work week is one that I think most people would be in support of because, again, I think people want purpose.

They just want a relatively easy and chill job to do.

It's a hard and a big question, but I'm asking the same one.

It seems to me that there has to be some kind of grand bargain.

I mean, I think that the original New Deal and rewriting of the social contract with the introduction of workweek regulations, minimum wage, union bargaining power was that.

When I was having a conversation with a friend earlier about how come during the 20th century, the United States experienced a ton of mechanization and automation.

And some people's jobs were displaced in that process, but you didn't see mass political violence.

You didn't see a Luddite style backlash.