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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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Communism would just end up with everyone being brain surgeons and rocket scientists with nobody filling potholes.
I'm from the middle of nowhere West Virginia where a lot of the times you can't get the county to fill in potholes. Lots of people manually fill them in themselves with gravel. If the tools were readily available to borrow, then there would absolutely be somebody that would fix their own road.
We act like there was no infrastructure before capitalism, and that's just not the case. If a village needed a bridge, they built a bridge together.
This is a joke right? Like those jobs are grueling as fuck and require very particular people to be interested/capable.
Not to say standing on the back of an asphalt machine is easy. Roadwork is pretty hard, not just physically and logistically, but making a nice even layer out rocks and oil-residue is actually not simple at all.
Everything is hard but very few people have still enough hands to even be considered neurosurgeons or an interest in using meth in order to perform the insane surgeries (need to stay awake and concentrate). Further few are capable of dehumanising people enough in order to be able to cut into them.
Plenty of people are interested in enough things to cover them but neurosurgery at least is almost life destroying in what it demands. I've never met anyone entirely whole that's a neurosurgeon, so it's kinda weird to imagine people would want to flock to it and we wouldn't have enough people happy to do other work.
You’re absolutely right, but if the choice is replacing your truck suspension for $1,000 every 2 years or poorly patching the road outside your house for a days worth of work and $100 in materials a year…
It’s not optimal, but needs must. A poor road repair is still cheaper than none.
Edit: While my comment sorta makes sense, I really thought you were replying to the guy who talked about his neighbors doing road repair. But that’s not who you were replying to!
I replied in a context that does not exist. Sorry!
who needs to repair potholes if the rocket surgeon general puts in streetcars
that’s what the automation is for
But who automates the automatons?
Sounds fun to me, but let's keep it to like three days a week, six hours per day
The auto-automatons ofc
And who automates the auto-automatons? Hmm checkmate.
auto-auto-automatons
We would need some mathematicians to generalize this to the entire set though. Then we'd have the more elegantly named auto-Natons which is valid for any positive integer N.
Any automaton worth it's salt contains a smaller version of itself.
They're called Russian-automatons.
There's a Youtube channel out there called Post 10.
This guy drives around looking for culverts to unclog. Has a day job in lawn care, decides to spend his free time recording himself raking leaf litter off of storm drain grates and pulling beaver dams out of drain pipes.
He has over 2 million active and engaged subscribers and his videos routinely pull in millions of views.
Given their needs are met and they have the time and energy, people will do the job they see needs doing. Just because you're too precious to fill potholes doesn't mean everyone is.