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And those without your skillset will certainly collect garbage from public spaces, repave roads and fill in potholes, and all the other boring and unpleasant ta
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
And those without your skillset will certainly collect garbage from public spaces, repave roads and fill in potholes, and all the other boring and unpleasant tasks that our civilization needs.
This is something I don't understand. All the potholes are filled, all government buildings are perfectly clean, no new infrastructure projects can be productively performed? Productively working women already have free child care provided? The government is already doing everything we want it to do, and there is no use whatsoever for low skill labor?
- motters 12y agoI don't know where you're living, but here in the UK the government only does a fraction of what ideally people would want and as time goes by it does less and less. There is indeed plenty of work to be done as you say, but typically you can't fulfil basic needs while doing those jobs which would enhance the neighbourhood. This is evidenced by the current phenomenon of the "working poor" (i.e. people who are working in the private sector but who still critically depend upon income from the state).
- dllthomas 12y agoOne can easily believe the proposition "we should be hiring more people to address public needs that are currently not well attended" and not believe "we should be promising to find some such thing for anyone who applies."