When people are like "nobody would want to sweep the floors!!!1!1!1!1" all I can think of is this dude on YouTube that just goes around clearing drains and culverts cause he likes it.

There's a particular flavor of person for everything and even if it's not something you love to do, it's something people would be willing to do if it's not something you have to do 40 hours a week or your family starves.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The gamble is if there's enough of these people in the right places to keep society running.

I'm not as confident as a lot of people seem to be that there are/would be. And that's ignoring the aspects of training, physical ability, etc and just considering interest/desire.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

so effectively what we want is a society that brutalises and marginalises a certain community to ensure there is a stream of desperate people to take "those" jobs?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

With UBI, it doesn't mean there aren't any jobs at all. It means that you need to incentivise people with enough money that they actually want to do that job. Better than the alternative of paying someone a poverty wage so they can try to keep a roof over their head.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

The way things are sucks, so maybe we should roll the dice then.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago

This sort of thing is unironically the best thing about Youtube. It lets people do things like this, and make money from their activities through sharing them with the world. Obviously the money isn't the motive, but I'm sure he appreciates the Youtube revenue on the side, and it means people get to see someone doing something good that they'd otherwise be oblivious to, which helps the perception that there are, in fact, good people out there.

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still I can't see how someone would volunteer working as a swimming pool life guard, though

[–] Dack@programming.dev 4 points 22 hours ago

Just heard someone who exactly wants to do that.

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Still I can't see how someone would volunteer working as a swimming pool life guard, though

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the channel?

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Post 10

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks