I just wanted you to know that.
But also, labor should come with a ranked ELO system for unlockable cosmetics and titles to make society more productive than it has ever been before.
I just wanted you to know that.
But also, labor should come with a ranked ELO system for unlockable cosmetics and titles to make society more productive than it has ever been before.
"But nobody would do the shitty jobs!"
Nobody would do them 40+ hours a week. If we rotated it and I only had to do it like once a week with a shorter shift hell yes I'd volunteer to collect garbage. It feels good to be be doing something useful and important.
All that farm labor that we fob off onto immigrants? Explain U-pick farms then. If we freed everybody from their fake jobs, I think we could manage it. Do it like my dad did trains in the USSR. Send a bunch of people out to do the work for a while and then send them home to do absolutely nothing for a month or two. My dad used to maintain the refrigerated train cars in the USSR. He worked 2 months on, two months off and he got to travel to every republic. It was perfect for his severely ADHD brain.
Plus if I knew my work was going to help the community and for the good of everyone instead of to enrich my boss and landlord I'd be motivated to do anything. I've always said I'd pretty much do any job if I only had to work 2 or 3 days a week. Society could totally run just fine on everyone working 2 or 3 days a week if we aren't trying to maximise profits for the capitalist class.
People did the shitty jobs before there was even money or capitalism. I would absolutely work in a sewer if I could also live a comfotable life otherwise and knew I was being genuinely useful to others. And we could prioritize automating said shitty jobs. Why not have shit drones for sewers? Why not have your local library drop you off a Roomba once a week or so to clean your floors for you? Why not aggressively automate mundane bullshit if capital isn't using slave wages as a substitute?
We talk about FALGSC like it's some far-off dream, but we do have the technology now to do a lot of it, if only we could abolish wage labor. We might not be dyson sphering the sun, but we can certainly more equitably distribute the benefits of automation.
Yeah I was thinking about who deals with the literal shit of the world and it became obvious to me that everyone should do manageable parts. Some folk would rather help with the plumbing in their neighborhood than the garden and vice versa.
I mean, to be fair CSAs fix that problem in a slightly more ethical way as well