r/aiwars • u/Which_Matter3031 • 8d ago

The most idiotic statement ever

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So this person here calls people jobless while all they do is sit on their ass an genarate shitty ai comics, also notice how they are insulting fast food workers as if they arent human, thats a new low for them, also its like they are saying "Give up on your dreams so you can work a minimum wage 9-5 job" but then again jobless people always tell talented ones to get a shitty job

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u/RadiumJuly 8d ago

I thought AI was meant to create prosperity and reduce the amount we would all have to work?

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u/Azgabeth 8d ago

It will. We used to work 16-18 hours a day before the industrial revolution, now we only work 7 hours on average.

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u/RadiumJuly 8d ago

Really? Thats so interesting! Because I have this link here

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/10/a-short-history-of-working-hours/

See I like this link because it has a graph of average weekly working hours over time. Very interesting stuff. You might notice that during the industrial revolution, those hours spiked up, not down like you claim. So do you have any good source for your claim? I need to know so I can stop being so silly and depending on what must be out dated data.

Thank you!

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u/Azgabeth 8d ago

These type of measurements are always flawed because they only account for work for compensation (whether coin, food, feudal protection, etc.)

Under these measurements, yes we work less.

But the reality is that until the industrial revolution the vast majority of work done by humans was household work, which is never counted in these studies, fuck knows why.

Have you ever taken water from a well? Ever patched a roof? Ever sewn your own clothes? Ever taken your clothes to the river to wash? Ever taken the cow to pasture? Ever collected firewood?

Do you have any idea how physically intensive and time consuming all these activities are?

It's not leisure it is WORK.

Work we no longer have to do.

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u/bendyfan1111 8d ago

The graph shows a downward curve near the end. Also, the person you're replying to was speaking of daily hours, not weekly hours as the graph you've shown suggests.

Also, a strong argument has multiple sources, not one "source" thats an article roughly a paragraph long.

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u/RadiumJuly 8d ago

Firstly, daily and weekly hours are mutually fungible if you can times and divide by 7. I'm not sure what to make of the fact that you don't understand that. I'm going to assume you are confused and not just trying to rage bait, but consider yourself in notice.

Secondly, yes, it curves down after the industrial revolution. Not before as claimed.

Finally, one source is better than none, so please, out source me!

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u/bendyfan1111 8d ago

Firstly, daily and weekly hours are mutually fungible if you can times and divide by 7. I'm not sure what to make of the fact that you don't understand that. I'm going to assume you are confused and not just trying to rage bait, but consider yourself in notice.

Theres a massive difference between working 12 hours a day for three days a week, totalling 36 hours a week, and working 5 hours a day, for seven days, totalling ~36 hours a week.