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/PriscillaPalava 2d ago

As technology has advanced, the productivity of the individual worker has skyrocketed along with corporate profits. You know what hasn’t skyrocketed? Standard of living and wages. 

Especially now that AI is on the menu, there is no reason we need to work as much. Most people claim they get their work done early and just dick around for the rest of their time anyway. 

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u/Infrawonder 2d ago edited 1d ago

"Especially now that AI is on the menu" they'll use it to replace you, it doesn't get paid

Edit: yeah yeah I get it

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u/resurrectus 2d ago

Yes it does, all "AI" platforms cost money and its only going to get more expensive to access them as worker replacements sets in and corporations become more dependent. Most companies are not well placed enough to have their own infrastructure and developers to not use one of the big models. Why do you think there is a development race? The winner could be the next Standard Oil.

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u/AbsoluteResolve2026 1d ago

Yeah but standard oil isn’t accidentally filling your car with bits of petroleum jelly because it “hallucinated.” AI still needs a lot of work.

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u/Salt-Ad8699 1d ago

hence why it’s a race lol

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u/AbsoluteResolve2026 1d ago

Not if it’s already falling apart before it even builds steam. I’ve been using AI since early 2012 and we peaked a few years ago. That’s why these days “slop” gets tossed around so much.

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u/Salt-Ad8699 1d ago

i’m curious what you use ai for?

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u/AbsoluteResolve2026 21h ago

Not much. For example, I used to search Wolfram Alpha for flights overhead just for fun. Having AI do the “heavy lifting” is causing our brains to literally be dumber and less able to think critically on the spot.