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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and ‘developed my career’ and now im ‘successful’ but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask ‘who fixes toilets under communism?’ my answer is a resounding ‘me. I will fix the toilets.’

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    181·
    9 months ago

    That works for stuff like “how do I connect two pipes”, but not so much for more complex matters like planning out a bathroom, or wiring a house. Or worse, things that actually require practice, like plastering a wall or bricklaying.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      9 months ago

      Those are all things where you can learn to do them under the supervision of an expert. And given the productivity we achieved with automation we could have a 20 hour “efficient” work week and use the other 20 hours for our “inefficient” shenanigans.

    • MercurySunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      59·
      9 months ago

      These things can be learned, so they can be taught. Don’t use the lack of education we’ve experienced as an excuse for further lack of education. That’s super weak.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        121·
        9 months ago

        Of course you can learn them, you can learn anything.

        But are you really going to learn every single skill you might one day need? Does this apply to everything, will you, for example, develop your own engine oil from the fractional distiller you hand-welded, with the metals you alloyed at home out of the ore you smelted yourself, just so you can lubricate the electric razor you assembled by hand?

        No? Is that perhaps a bit inefficient? Of course it is, because no single human being can learn every skill we have available in society, and that’s been true since we invented agriculture.

        There is no shame in not knowing how to plaster a wall, because that’s hard. Just like there is no shame in not being able to hand-weld and operate a fractional distiller. Now, not being able to unclog your toilet, or paint a wall, is up for discussion.

        • MercurySunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
          58·
          9 months ago

          I actually do have to learn to plaster a wall, to fix my house. People should be taught everything they need to know to live on their own, sustainably. I can’t believe you’re trying to argue against that. Capitalism makes everyone weaker, top to bottom. Wake up.

            • MercurySunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
              24·
              9 months ago

              I never said people can’t specialize. You’re totally ignoring the point, which is that basic life skills aren’t taught because capitalism assumes the owner will pay somebody else, rather than being actually useful people themselves. Try listening sometime, it may do you some good.

                • MercurySunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  0·
                  8 months ago

                  Fixing a toilet should be considered a basic life skill, in my opinion. So is plastering, which is basically just large-scale patching. Toilets are important for quality of life, or are you going to try and disagree with that too? You’re literally the one moving the goalpost and you admit that by referring to the comments rather than the post, which was what I was talking about, and have always been talking about. Maybe stop throwing a fit just because I said the people deserve better education and that capitalism sucks. Both are true whether you like hearing it or not. Anarcho-communism believes in strengthening the individual so that if the society fails, the people can still survive well. It’s called self-sustainability. Be mad at it if you want, doesn’t make it wrong.