• QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creator
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    Yeah the work people “want to do” and the work that needs to get done do not align IRL. Not enough people want to deal with waste systems or sanitation yet those are critical to any society.

    This isn’t Star Trek. We don’t live in a magical future where all the dangerous yet necessary work is automated.

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      They’ll want to clean the sewer when the sewer needs cleaning, the same way that you “want” to vacuum your home even if you don’t want to do it.

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        That requires a ton of people who know how to maintain sewage systems from experience. You aren’t getting that from volunteers and you’ll need these people in every community.

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          You missing the point. People will do work when it is required whether or not they desire to do work. It doesn’t require a magic job creator to get work done.

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            YOU are missing the point. At no time have I cited the need for capitalist ownership of this system but rather an need for unequal and naturally higher payment for those that do these jobs. They cannot be volunteer positions as they require experienced people.

            Do you have any idea how these systems function IRL?

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                That is irrelevant to understanding sewage systems. Your skill set isn’t fixing water-main problems around electrical equipment for example.

                Anarchism is a field dream for artists who couldn’t understand civil engineering.

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      Not enough people want to deal with waste systems or sanitation

      No one has “shit purger” as their favorite way of passing their time. That doesn’t mean that no one would pick the job and leave themselves and everyone else waddling in two inches of it

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        You don’t need volunteers to maintan sewer systems. you need trained experts. You aren’t getting this from volunteers.

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            No it isn’t. Skilled labor has a real definition and it is useful. Unskilled labor doesn’t mean you have no skills it just means you don’t have a proven specific set of skills that your job title implies. For example you know a mason can build a brick wall whereas a contractor might be able to do the same but you wouldn’t know that from the job title.

            The emotional response people have to skilled labor vs unskilled is always weird to me. It’s as if none of you read the definition and thought about it for a second.

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        there are absolutely people who really like maintaining waste systems

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      You’re conflating work that needs to get done with work capitalists want done.

      Yes, someone needs to deal with sanitation. But we don’t need a capitalist to own the sanitation system to address this. It can be done in turn, for instance; or volunteers can be rewarded with non-necessity items.

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        No, Im not. Do you think we can get enough volunteers who have the right skills to address sanitation issues?

        In most places no one owns the sewage system other than the state.

        There is a lot of work that no one would willingly do that is critical and requires a lot if hands on experience. The problem leftist ideologies face IRL is that so many require people who would choose to do extremely dangerous jobs with no realistic plan for how to account fir this.

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          Yes. Those jobs would provide more luxury lifestyle outside of the basic needs already. Keep rasing the pay until someone takes the job.

          Also the issue is that we think we’re too good to do those jobs, but we’re not above lowering everyone’s standards of living to the point that people have to jump in shit to survive? We can get people to take those jobs, but do we also need to stop judging people based on their career path. That’ll go a long way to fixing our nation.

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            If you are talking about higher pay you are talking about a different system than the one proposed. Their system has no economic inequality so no higher pay.

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              Even in a post scarcity world those who provide more for to society do receive greater accommodations. Captains and officers get larger rooms and houses. But until that reality is possible those who provide more for society should receive greater financial support. Not CEOs.