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Your questions are valid, but you have to realize that they are not the gotchas that you think they are. Socialists - who are the ones advocating for socialized
by bjourne 5y ago
Your questions are valid, but you have to realize that they are not
the gotchas that you think they are. Socialists - who are the ones
advocating for socialized production - have been writing books
providing elaborate answers for your questions for over 100
years. Those socialists have thought long and deep about those problems
and if you haven't you should listen to what they have to say. Like,
someone who has never written a line of Lisp in their life should
first learn the language before stating that it is impractical.
Your first question assumes that jobs can be ranked on a shittyness
scale. This is true in a capitalist society, but why is it true? Why
is developing software at Microsoft less shitty than frying burgers at
McDonald's? Is the act of frying burgers shit and the act of
typing source code on a computer less shit? Is walking dogs more shit
than lecturing at universities? The answer to these questions are no,
or else people wouldn't fry burgers at home and they would not buy
dogs.
The shittyness of a job is more dependent to the employee's
circumstances, like how much autonomy they have, their social
standing, job security, treatment by others, etc, than the actual
tasks performed.
- MathCodeLove 5y agoI enjoy solving problems on a computer, I don't enjoy working in a hot, greasy, rushed environment. Some jobs can be objectively ranked and pretending otherwise is ridiculous.