Zu den einfachsten Ideen, um Einzelpersonen einen größeren Anteil an der KI-Effizienz zu verschaffen, die bereits einen weltweiten Präzedenzfall hat, gehört die Verkürzung der Arbeitswoche für alle.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/26/how-can-ai-wealth-be-shared-with-all-americans.html
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Great, shorten the work week FIRST and then we’ll try out those AI gains. Not the reverse.
What gains, exactly? Show me a cent of GAAP profit in any company directly delivering AI. Right now it’s all on hardware sales, that if you define it as ‘AI’, they’ll reposition as ‘hyperscale math machines’ rather than ‘AI processors ’ which replaced their original positioning of gaming GPUs and crypto mining cards.
This is all fantasy on a fantasy, by people who don’t have the first idea of what they’re looking at, but love the donations to come rolling on in.
Hahaha.. Yeah right.
If the public fall for this PR Bullshit, they deserve every bit of what’s coming.
Doesn’t that also ensure unchecked growth, power consumption, speculation etc?
Doesn’t help the fact that these datacenters are major polluters and they are only getting worse. Not to mention the use of AI to manipulate and track every single person.
There is no wealth when you add externalities to the equation.
“How thing that will never happen & no one in charge of letting it happen intend for it to actually happen could happen”
Based on recent history, they would rather see most of us die.
Right now there is only AI debt. And I’m sure that the wealthy are drooling at the prospect of splitting the bill among everyone except themselves.
How many pieces of major life changing legislation has Bernie gotten passed ? It seems like all they’re doing is generating headlines
This is not going to happen no matter how many times it’s posted
hint: it wont.
the american government is ran by billionaire socialists who see americans as nothing but cattle.
human labor is 50% the cost of every product
everything could be come 50% cheaper. wont cause they want to make 50% more profit
Don’t worry, right now the AI wealth may be unequal distributed, but once the clock strikes 12 and it all turns back into a pumpkin, the losses will be spread around evenly among the poor people.
Much of the AI wealth that exists right now is theoretical and based on future expected revenue more than current real revenue.
At some point the expectations for the future will have to be adjusted to better fit reality and people will realize that there is less wealth there than they thought.
The ones holding the bag with the difference between expectation and reality in it won’t be the billionaires.
Eventually we will all be poorer and have a much better understanding of the wealth that AI represents and then some asshole will sell it to China for short term profit to concentrate on the next big thing.
Counting chickens before they hatch. What AI wealth?
When AI and robotics result in warwhouses 100% automated, I see a future where taxing those entities will be taxed a crazy amount, maybe 90%, since they would essentially be making money with zero overhead (yes this is overly simplified).
So maybe dont tax the individually rich, but rather the companies who have fully automated their production, and that should be more than enough to fund some sort of basic income.
Perhaps conpanies will be given a choice: Either be taxed low but agree to limit automation to only half, and hire humans to do the rest, or fully autonate and be taxed 90%.
How does this help the workers that are salaried and already working more than 40 hours just because? That’s 42% of us. There’s already no consistent expectation about how many hours above 40 a person should reasonably expect to work, and companies all abuse this idea by giving promotions and salary increases based on who works themselves the hardest. Some change is needed to force salaried workers down to 32 hours too.
Isn’t the workweek length more of a cultural thing? At least in the US? One thing that could help change the culture would be to change the FSLA overtime laws for non-exempt employees to something less than 40 hours/week. But a great many jobs that use or benefit from AI are exempt.
I’m not anti-AI in concept. I can see the potential for huge productivity gains if implemented responsibly but even sharing the profits with the people isn’t going to negate the massive environmental impact we’re seeing. As if we’re all going to be ok with these companies continue to rape the planet and consume all of our drinking water if they cut us a check. Until they come up with some answers about how this technology can be implemented in a way that doesn’t literally destroy our communities, this is a non-starter
Say they follow through and distribute half of the profits from AI to people. Which people do they distribute it to? Gainfully employed people with no criminal record? Or does society continue to fund the thugs who ruin society?
There’s an obvious and easy and fair way to do it. The same way Norway is able to divvy up their oil wealth. Sovereign wealth fund. They have the largest one in the world and we could’ve had one too.
This is placating propaganda.
At the present time, every (and I do mean every) serious AI company through its executives gives financial backing to politicians who would N E V E R support legislation enforcing or encouraging this, or other measures like „universal basic income“. And they very well know that, even while reciting shallow fairytales like this to the media.
Where is this AI wealth? Is it in the room with is? The AI companies are all still burning through investments without any net gain (including Google.) Hardware is having profits, but there is also a circular investment strategy which is being used to pump stock prices.
AI *wealth* ? The whole industry is net loss and operating by burning endless Investor money.
All you can distribute is the economical collapse that is going to follow like in 2008 lmao.
Simple, 1000 $ check for the average Joe, 10 billion for the rich.
This is the conversation we should be having. Every major productivity leap eventually raises the same question: who gets the gains? Right now AI is mostly increasing output, but theres no law saying all of that has to become shareholder profit. A shorter work week, stronger bargaining power, public investment, and worker ownership are all ways to turn productivity into better lives instead of just bigger quarterly earnings. AI isnt the policy. Distribution is.
If youre interested in debating what a left-wing approach to AI actually looks like beyond just „AI good“ or „AI bad,“ check out r/LeftistsForAI. Theres a lot of discussion around labor, ownership, public infrastructure, unions, and democratic control of the technology.
What WEALTH?!
So far we can see just debt. Unless we nationalize Nvidia, or SK hynix/sandisk, there isnt much wealth to share.
Sorry, but none of the single-solution proposals in the text (taxing billionaires vs. direct payouts) will work in isolation because they all fail at the implementation layer.
The most viable path is a Hybrid Data Royalty Model. We shouldn’t attempt to value an individual’s „token“ (which is technically impossible and economically inefficient), but treat human-generated data as a collective natural resource, like how mineral rights or timber rights work.
Companies shouldn’t pay you directly and instead they should pay into a Public Data Trust via a micro-levy on compute/inference usage. That trust could then distribute dividends to citizens…not based on „how much you wrote,“ but as a baseline of „participation in the digital commons.“
Considering AI has over a trillion in debt right now, this sounds like an attempt by Tech bros to get bailed out for their bad investments.