• Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        You really think enough people are going to love doing septic tank maintenance and picking berries and all the other hot, painful, messy shit that people have to do to keep ourselves alive to support that? Because I don’t.

        Maybe when we’ve got amazing robots that can do all that I guess, but then we’ve just moved on to robot maintenance and coding. Granted more people will be ok with those tasks, but they call it work because it’s WORK.

        • theneverfox@pawb.social
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          1 year ago

          Some people genuinely don’t care about smells and such, and construction and maintenance is satisfying without being pushed to always do more with less… People do it for free all the time. Just this week, I helped my neighbor with some stuff, I like using tools and using my hands.

          People literally pay to pick berries as a fun group activity. People go on wait lists for things like habitat for humanity

          People like doing these activities. They don’t like the conditions of a job doing these things.

          Clearly, there’s some middle ground - you don’t need the threat of homelessness to get people to work. You can make less desirable jobs well paid, let people play with the fancy power tools, or have the jobs come with social status/privileges

          Obviously it’s not as simple as “hope someone volunteers” but it’s clearly not some impossible to solve problem