The 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday grind got you down?
Take solace: That will one day be history, according to billionaire British serial entrepreneur Richard Branson.
"The idea of working five days a week with two day weekends and a few weeks of holiday each year has become ingrained in society. But it wasn't always the case, and it won't be in the future," Branson writes in a post on his blog Tuesday.
That's because technology will change jobs currently held by humans, Branson says.
"As Google's Larry Page and others have said, the amount of jobs available for people is going to decrease as technology progresses. New innovations will drive industries forward, but they will also reduce our reliance on people power," Branson says. "Ideas such as driverless cars and more advanced drones are becoming a reality, and machines will be used for more and more jobs in the future. Even pilot-less planes will be become the reality in the not too distant future."
Branson is not alone in this viewpoint.
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has issued dire warnings about technology usurping human jobs.
"There certainly will be job disruption. Because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us," Musk told the National Governors Association in 2107.
Blaz3 on December 14th, 2018 at 01:13 UTC »
I think I remember my parents saying the same thing when computers were spreading across every industry. Sure we can do things faster with them, but we're working harder and longer than ever now.
I'm just having a hard time believing that we'll all be working less any time soon
Dingus_Malort on December 14th, 2018 at 01:12 UTC »
Unfortunately I got a good feeling it means we're all going to end up working 80 hour+ weeks and being a 1099.
EDIT: OK, well that blew up. Look everybody coming and saying fatalist things. I get it, but we need to organized and have our voices heard. So, I can't believe I'm saying this. But maybe check out the DSA.
supertempo on December 14th, 2018 at 00:18 UTC »
I just know as soon as it's time for me to retire they're going to get rid of 5-day work weeks and pass universal basic income.