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0 pointshutzlibu2y ago0 comments

"But at the same time, if you observed that very very few people wanted to clean sewers for whatever reason"

The reason might be, most people do not like to be in the literal shit of others? It comes with actual health hazards btw.

"and there wasn't enough supply to meet demand, then you invest more in technology that reduces the shortfall. As others suggested, automation"

But we ain't there yet at all. What do we do, till then?

The sewage needs to run 24 h and not only if someone feels like taking a look eventually.

And as for ordinary garbage: mostly it is not a desk job, but physical labour to touch and move hundreds of different dirty garbage bins every day.

Dealing with that shit, should always come with good compensation. (whether money or social credits or whatever currency is in use)

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Niksko2y ago

> What do you do until then?

Sure, but you iterate. We decided as a society that Polio was awful enough that we wanted to eradicate it. If we freed up enough effort that is currently wasted on chasing profits, we could eventually get to solving problems like "shit stinks and it sucks having to clean it".

pfannkuchen2y ago

Absent corruption, profits must by definition come from money paid by people who determined that, according to themselves, the work being paid for has value. This is why capitalism works. It is a mass, distributed, value computation engine.

Considering this, I don’t see how effort is wasted on profit, since the effort produced something that someone considered valuable. Do we have another way of computing value at scale? To date, I haven’t seen any realistic proposals.

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