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The answer, like with all things, lies somewhere in between. Yes, someone still has to clean toilets (until we have robots for that) and deliver packages (agai
by thewebguyd 5mo ago
The answer, like with all things, lies somewhere in between.
Yes, someone still has to clean toilets (until we have robots for that) and deliver packages (again, robots, eventually). But a fully egalitarian society, or even something like UBI to equalize everyone's living conditions just means no coercion, not no effort. The goal should be a world without bullshit jobs and survival enforced exploitation.
Paving roads and maintaining infrastructure are still necessary tasks. The difference is, in a UBI-backed or egalitarian society, the economics of those jobs would change. Those jobs should be valued more, and those workers paid more because of their grueling and necessary nature. What we shouldn't do is what we do now, which is rely on a desperate underclass to do these jobs for pennies just to survive.
Point is, we don't need authoritarian hierarchy, we could manage just fine with worker owned co-ops. There are still leaders and managers, but they are accountable to the workers, not the other way around.
Humans naturally (most of us, anyway) want to build, solve problems, and contribute when they aren't completely exhausted by survival.