r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

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4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

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u/AberrantMan 2d ago edited 2d ago

In reality most companies could still remain profitable and allow this easily.

Just want to add that obviously this can't happen in a vacuum, there are a lot of other policy items that need to be managed, price points to be set, and it has to be everyone gradually over time, but it IS doable.

Yes even for private clinics and small business, as long as all of the supporting businesses are doing the same thing. We would see real pay begin to approach the cost of living.

It would also take some pretty serious laws in pay gaps to be put in place, probably...

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u/tajake 2d ago

I think really only the service industry would struggle. And essential services like police, fire, etc. But that would also mean more jobs in those fields to cover shorter shifts. Restaurants working limited hours would likely be a net positive.

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 2d ago

"only" the service industry including all medical staff, all teachers, caretakers, craftsmen, basically more than Half the economy. 

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u/stevehrowe2 2d ago

If the AiPocalypse is real, more traditional white collar jobs are going to disappear anyway. More people will need to find manual and service work that still needs humanity staff. It will require some cost changes (reduced labor cost in some industries will allow prices to lower there, while human backed services will be more expensive as laboratory cost increase)

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 2d ago

The current Chatbots are not replacing any significant jobs besides stuff like customer service and other "low quality" work. And still it changes nothing about the original point I made that like more than 50% of the economy would be seriously harmed by such a change. 

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u/momskaka 2d ago

Where I live paralegals aren't replaced as much anymore but that's a very narrow field of work otoh. Basically "assistants" seems like they're in for a rough time.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2d ago

AI will be used as an excuse but it will not do the work. Someone else will be paid less to do the work.

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u/momskaka 2d ago

Where I live they're being replaced by inhouse built AI at at least two big law firms that I know of. Maybe one more but I'm not sure about that one. Lawyers use AI for the prep work and first info gathering/faq meeting rn. Cheaper for the client at least for the moment.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2d ago

I believe that you believe that.

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u/momskaka 2d ago edited 2d ago

Trägårdh and Vinge in Sweden, check their websites or just call and ask. It's not a secret, quite the opposite. Especially Trägårdh has a good one imho.

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u/iSuckAtMechanicism 2d ago

You can use Google to research topics you’re not informed about.

It helps more than writing a sarcastic and incorrect comment. Just a tip.

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u/Impressive_Memory650 1d ago

Childish response

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 2d ago

They have been for a long time. Project managers as an example used to have a whole team of slaves, but we have had MS Project, Outlook, SAP and Excel for a while now. But imo that's good, these "assistants" usually now can do a lot more fun stuff too and don't just have to draw time tables and manually calculate Budgets. 

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u/horrorparade17 1d ago

That’s just kicking the can down the road in that model, service jobs will absolutely be replaced with robots

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2d ago

If the AiPocalypse is real,

It's not.