Posted on 07/07/2014 7:55:41 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
It sounds like a dream: Work part-time while maintaining the same standard of living.
Google co-founder Larry Page thinks it should be a reality for everyone.
The tech titan and his co-founder, Sergey Brin, sat down for a rare joint interview that was moderated by fellow billionaire, Vinod Khosta, and posted to YouTube.
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"If you really think about the things you need to make yourself happy -- housing, security, opportunity for your kids ... it's not that hard for us to provide those things," Page said. "The idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet peoples' needs is not true."
Page said the world should be living in a "time of abundance" in which robots and machines could help meet everyone's basic needs much more easily.
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I love my job. It gives me a sense of purpose. The sense of accomplishment I get after successfully troubleshooting and fixing a failed system is awesome. They are going to have to carry me from my job in a bodybag. I don’t want to retire. I wouldn’t know what to do with myself!
WORK! In the 40 years of my working life I only turned down two days of overtime! I knew that overtime was the way to get set up for retirement and out of debt!
I would check the vacation list, and volunteer to work that shift for the people off. I often worked 16 hours a day! On my vacation, in the last few years of working I worked every hour I could get.
I have been retired now for 6 years. I’m not rich but I haven’t missed a meal either.
Work is the only way out of poverty and I’ve taken it!
NEVER TURN DOWN A CHANCE AT OVERTIME!
They know that within thirty years, machines will be doing all the work and there will be no jobs for the vast majority of us.
When that happens, we all will be on the dole, with no opportunity to better ourselves through hard and smart work.
These morons at Google think that will be a wonderful future for us—no rich, no poor. Everyone gets to live the same boring life with a little solar powered box to call home and battery powered car that drives itself.
But it will be the worst kind of existence. And it is coming.
Socialists want more people dependent on gov’t.
They have this notion that peons shouldn’t have so much independence and prosperity, least they damage the precious planet.
Gov’t control is the best way to save the dirt, and to hell with the people.
Everybody on the planet can’t be a commie freeloader! Somebody has to work!
When you’re sitting on a wallet full of bazillion dollar bills, it easy to wax philosophical.
Great point!
We aready have millions of part timers who enjoy a standard of living far above that of the average worker — government employees.
My theory is that the generation of fantastic wealth has very little to do with intelligence, logic, common sense or even hard work. I think it has more to do with the very rare combination of having no fear of risk, and simply being at the right place at the right time.
The reality is if people like Warren buffet or these two google idiots or zuckerburg had to start over today, they would likely never be able to duplicate their success.
Meet Dillon SWAT team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nug5FZgxuk
Gogole employees work huge hours. They even work when they are traveling to and from work on google’s buses.
Besides being completely wrong and mis-reading human nature, you are correct.
Work has value, and it provides balance. Not all the time, and not for everybody, but it does have value apart from the obvious money-generation.
All you have to do is look at people who have been given everything their whole lives, and you can see it isn’t good or healthy.
Wasn’t this the plot to Frank Herbert’s Dune pre-history? The Robots made everybody apathetic and then other people with robots took over.
Maybe the google guys are science fiction fans and it’s gotten to their heads.
I think it has more of a chance to end up like the old Judge Dredd Comics. Idle hands being the devils Workshop and all.
LOL...I just re-read the last post...hope you didn’t misinterpret it...
What I was trying to say was “...besides GOOGLE being wrong and misreading human nature...”
Not you!
I notice no one thus far has addressed what he actually said. Instead the focus has been on what they wanted him to have said.
What he did say is undeniably true today.
There is a certain eloquence in the simplicity of your conclusion. Nicely done.
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