> Traditional economics might predict that AI-boosted productivity would reduce working hours, a four-day weekend for tasks that once took five days. The funny

> Traditional economics might predict that AI-boosted productivity would reduce working hours, a four-day weekend for tasks that once took five days. The funny thing is, there have been precedents: invention of typewriters/telephones, then computerization, then the Internet, — and the work only ever expanded. And now there is AI. Well, you know, what they say: when you've got a willing horse, whip it for another ten miles; surely this works with human workers as well.