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Lazhward@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoyou just can’t afford things like electricity, sewage treatment and antibiotics. We only have those things because of the economies of scale that society allows.
We have those things because people do the required labour, economies of scale make it require less labour, but one can’t afford it because it’s privatized. Why wouldn’t people do this simply for the benefit of humanity?
genetically greedy, so we must genocide that out of the population
What’s with the disgusting eugenics? Just expropriate their wealth.
At some point someone built that house.
Yeah people built a lot of houses, so let’s use them? And build more if needed?
it’s difficult and miserable on a relatively small number of people. Those people probably aren’t going to keep farming at industrial scale for the fun of it.
Right, so let’s distribute the burden of this labour instead of having a small number of people do it for a lifetime.
We do the job at all because if we don’t, it’ll cause a few million cases of cholera. Who do you think should pay for the hose that guy is using?
Since the labour protects all of us, all of us collectively. Again, for the benefit of humanity and let’s distribute the burden.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Because the good of humanity doesn’t heat the house or put dinner on the table. Never has and never will. If you were a human, you’d have learned that from experience.
Some of that is exaggeration for comedic effect. “Okay, thanos snap every rich person everywhere is gone, we’ve solved greed. Now what?” But also…have we ever tried exterminating the rich? I think I’ve got a hypothesis here worth testing.
Who gets to make the decisions as to how?
Well now we’re getting into some Robert Heinlein. Service Guarantees Citizenship! Would you like to know more?
I believe he once backed down a little bit on the requirement for military service, in favor of civil service in general. And I can kinda get behind that. You want to have a say in how society is run? Go spend 6 years as a mailman or a middle school janitor. Go be an NTSB accident investigator or one of those folks working in the USDA’s kitchens testing canning recipes for safety. Those are the folks who should be running the show.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know man, money doesn’t heat my home or grow food. It’s the skilled maintenance worker who fixes the central heating, the farmers growing my food and the logistics personnel ensuring it ends up on the supermarket shelves. It’s just good people doing the work that needs doing, I don’t think it’s a given that anyone needs monetary compensation for that.
This is why we invented democracies.
Haha, hell yeah! Just imagine decision makers having actual experience doing useful labour, I imagine things would turn out better indeed! :)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stop paying them and find out.