Robert Reich on AI will create a permanent underclass

Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor

If the five-day workweek with five days of pay shrinks to four days with four days of pay, and then to three, and to two, and perhaps one, AI will supplant most people’s work and drive down our take-home pay.

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Robert Reich, “The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly ‘frees up’,” The Guardian, February 18, 2026.

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