Bezos says AI will bring a 3-day workweek and make hiring hard as families drop to one income
Immediate-Court-4074 · reddit · 2026-10-10
Jeff Bezos argues AI-era abundance will make a 3-day workweek and single-income households the norm: "You're not going to need to have a two-earner household... It's going to be difficult to hire people" because productivity gains mean people won't need to work extra. Reddit commenters are skeptical about where that "abundance of wealth" actually comes from.
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