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We only have structures like this due to the class system, where some people never shovel shit and some people do it all week long. A great suggestion for this
by TaylorAlexander 3y ago
We only have structures like this due to the class system, where some people never shovel shit and some people do it all week long. A great suggestion for this incidentally brought up by Noam Chomsky in 1976 is to rotate people through these jobs, so everyone spends maybe two days a month on the task. People appreciate a little bit of difficult labor, it just sucks when you have to do it every day for survival. I linked directly to the few minutes of this talk where he talks about it here, but if you have more time check out the whole thing:
https://youtu.be/h_x0Y3FqkEI?t=1744 https://youtu.be/h_x0Y3FqkEI?t=1744
- myk9001 3y agoWithout any intention of snark or confrontation whatsoever, can I ask you 1) Have you personally tried to put this idea to practice? If yes, for how long? Would you be willing to share some details? If no, why not? It doesn't take changing the entire society, you can do something like that literally now. Be creative, travel to a different random town twice a month and offer to clean toilets in a couple of buildings? Again, I don't mean to be snarky with this example, I just think working on 3D printers doesn't cut it as a type of difficult labor. Think more along the lines of going down into a mine, shoveling literal shit for 8 hours, etc. 2) Imagine, the society has actually changed such that everyone is supposed to do a couple days of difficult labor. What happens if someone refuses? A punishment? If there is no punishment, what happens if almost everyone refuses and there's not enough people to sustain this undesirable but critical jobs?
- CMCDragonkai 3y agoI believe this concept was tried out in communist states. They sent intellectuals out to farms in china so they could get some hard manual labour.