Robots. The solution for the disgusting jobs nobody really wants to do is to build machines to do it.
Or, or perhaps until these jobs can be automated, or remotely performed, you incentivize people to do them by offering privileges. Perhaps luxury items, or vacations, etc. Or, perhaps you make it something everyone in the community has to take a turn doing. Like jury duty. Could still also incentivize it.
These are necessary albeit disgusting jobs that people should be praised for doing instead of looked down on like they often are. Garbage collectors, sanitation workers, janitors and the like are some of the most important work that someone can do.
Nursing, and Doctoring often entails just as disgusting of work as the aforementioned jobs. Some are only willing to do the work for the money. Some will always be willing to do it for the desire to help society, and the recognition they receive. As long as their fundamental needs and more are met, people will be willing to do disgusting jobs for the greater good.
Let me put it this way: maybe society is so filled with angels that things like this wouldn’t be a problem.
Regardless, we should probably set up incentive structures such that pro-social behavior is rewarded rather than depending on the kindness of everyone’s hearts, and being completely fucked otherwise.
Also, it’s still going to be more efficient for one person to go around collecting their neighbors’ trash and driving it to the dump, and it kinda sounds like someone’s gonna still end up doing that, they just won’t be getting paid for it.
That could work for something like garbage collection, where the stakes and skill level are relatively low. But there’s also jobs that are critical and high skill, like operating a power plant. You’re probably going to want the same people doing that consistently, and again, it’s relying on skilled people sacrificing a lot of time and energy, with no clear reward or incentive.
If the option of college was open to me and a life of corporate drudgery wasn’t forced upon me, I would have happilly served my country by becoming a nuclear reactor operator/technician, that shit is dope.
Mucking out sewers, garbage collection, manually excavating Fatbergs:
Robots. The solution for the disgusting jobs nobody really wants to do is to build machines to do it.
Or, or perhaps until these jobs can be automated, or remotely performed, you incentivize people to do them by offering privileges. Perhaps luxury items, or vacations, etc. Or, perhaps you make it something everyone in the community has to take a turn doing. Like jury duty. Could still also incentivize it.
These are necessary albeit disgusting jobs that people should be praised for doing instead of looked down on like they often are. Garbage collectors, sanitation workers, janitors and the like are some of the most important work that someone can do.
Nursing, and Doctoring often entails just as disgusting of work as the aforementioned jobs. Some are only willing to do the work for the money. Some will always be willing to do it for the desire to help society, and the recognition they receive. As long as their fundamental needs and more are met, people will be willing to do disgusting jobs for the greater good.
You don’t think people would volunteer to maintain sewers or collect garbage if the alternative was shit/trash everywhere?
To me it just looks like an easy way to do your community a service.
100% people would volunteer to collect garbage.
Community cleanups occur regularly in my local area.
Let me put it this way: maybe society is so filled with angels that things like this wouldn’t be a problem.
Regardless, we should probably set up incentive structures such that pro-social behavior is rewarded rather than depending on the kindness of everyone’s hearts, and being completely fucked otherwise.
Also, it’s still going to be more efficient for one person to go around collecting their neighbors’ trash and driving it to the dump, and it kinda sounds like someone’s gonna still end up doing that, they just won’t be getting paid for it.
I dunno, could just be like jury duty. Terry’s on trash truck this week.
That could work for something like garbage collection, where the stakes and skill level are relatively low. But there’s also jobs that are critical and high skill, like operating a power plant. You’re probably going to want the same people doing that consistently, and again, it’s relying on skilled people sacrificing a lot of time and energy, with no clear reward or incentive.
You are underestimating the weaponised autism.
If the option of college was open to me and a life of corporate drudgery wasn’t forced upon me, I would have happilly served my country by becoming a nuclear reactor operator/technician, that shit is dope.
i feel like every discussion about capitalism ends up like the wkuk skit about anarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
Yeah, love that sketch!
Unplugging your toilet?-> yes.
Unclogging a hot guy/gal’s toilet?-> yes.
Unclogging an old gramma’s toilet -> nah, I pass thank you!