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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Sure is a good thing doing this dishes is the most complicated and least-pleasant thing people can do...

Who's gonna volunteer to go through years of training specializing in commercial diving in wastewater to treatment plants for free?

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Someone who wants to live a life of luxury and comfort in a world with wastewater treatment plants, knowing that everyone else is also pitching in and doing their part.

Someone who wants to live in a world without billionaire pedophiles in power doing nothing but hoarding all of the wealth and abusing women and children.

Someone who cares about the wellbeing of their community and is motivated by that, rather than by selfish greed.

In other words, anyone. Everyone.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is idealistic to the point of parody.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

These are all real things. A better world is possible. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but remember that incredible changes that would have seemed impossible have happened before and will happen again.

If you told a pioneer in the Virginia company back in 1607 that black women would be given rights and the abililty to vote to elect their leaders, they'd probably burn you as a witch.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Everyone can't do everything, and some specialized jobs with specialized skills are extremely unpleasant. Are you suggesting that we just hope things get done, or that we force people to do it while giving nothing in return.

One is delusional - the other is just slavery.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago

I'm suggesting that we can come up with a better system than the current one we have. I have ideas for how we could do that, and if you're interested you can check out an anarchist FAQ for a wide variety of ideas, but I don't have all the answers, no one does. We can only reach a system which works for everyone by first acknowledging our current system is deeply flawed, then coming together to work to build a better alternative.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Who's gonna do mindbraking soulcrushing jobs for days without a break?" Nobody, that's not a job that has to be done this way. "But if we stop orphan crushing machine, what will crush all the orphans?"
When you're imagining the worst parts of the worst jobs, remember that the reason those jobs have worst parts is because the main incentive of every job is to have the profit of a job as high as possible, and to exploit the workers. Yeah, some jobs are hard, some are complicated, some are dirty, some are all three. But all that is something people can and regularly enjoy. People don't enjoy when it's degrading, when it's soulcrushing for no reason, when there is obvious injustice. And it has nothing to do with jobs

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Some things require years of specialization and simply can't be done by novices. You don't want volunteer engineers, pharmacists, etc. Some of those specializations are also unpleasant. We need to support people and not require that all humanity be profitable, but we also need to incentivize people to do shitty and/or difficult jobs. That balance is extremely difficult to find, and the most effective solution we've found is paying people for that work. There's an incredible imbalance in our system right now that values non-productive ownership over all else, but the solution to that isn't saying "Fuck it - nobody gets paid and it'll all work itself out."

The easiest solution is to tax the shit out of the uber-wealthy. Right now we have lower classes defined by income and an upper class defined by wealth. If we remove the wealth and make work and productivity more valuable than ownership, it moves us much closer to equity.