• paulcdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    This is how you tell rich people have some serious mental health issue.

    Decent people would rather a world where people worked because they enjoy that type of work rather than being forced to do it because they need money to live.

    If you removed money, imagine where we’d all be as a society without the toxicity of money, wars and hate! :(

    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Society would collapse.
      While working out of enjoyment instead of necessity is a noble and good goal. There are jobs that no one enjoys. Money can be used as an incentive to motivate people to work on jobs that aren’t that enjoyable, but still necessary.

        • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Some yeah, but undoubtedly not enough to keep it working. For example i doubt that many people enjoy working at garbage disposable or basically any waste disposal. Of course these jobs should be fully operated by machines. Or any assistant jobs in manufacturing or jobs that operate in shifts.

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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            4 months ago

            For example i doubt that many people enjoy working at garbage disposable or basically any waste disposal

            Ehhh I bet you’d be wrong. Only anecdotal obviously, but at practice and games for the kids, a lot of dads just chat when there isnt much going on. A couple of them work for the local garbage company. One of them commented that he doesnt know how I stay inside and work all day, he really enjoys being outside with the trucks in the morning, then enjoying the afternoon outside with the kids. Another one is a mechanic for them, he always thought the trucks were cool, and he still enjoys working on them (though he will 100% tell you, in great detail, which manufacturers suck for various parts). Haven’t talked much with the last one about work, I think he is the only one just straight up doing it for money though.

            And who knows, maybe the guy who likes being outside says that to be positive about his choices in life, but I see him at the park with the kids a lot, I’ve run into him heading out to the trails on his mountain bike, etc, so I believe him that he’s perfectly happy doing it.

            Automation for unwanted tasks is great though, I agree, and where automation should be focused.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Nobody would be motivated to do the Grunt work and the demeaning work and the harmful work and the monotonous work and the thankless work, and why should they if they get the same reward for doing the opposite?