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Serious question, how can we provide everyone's basic needs without some work? Food doesn't harvest itself. Tools don't maintain themselves.
Labor will always be required on some level though it does not need to be exploited.
The premise is that without coercion people won't work. Which is just not true, people will do the work they want to do. It's just that the work people want to do isn't necessarily the work capitalists want them to do. Which means less exploitation and profit for the capitalists.
Yeah the work people "want to do" and the work that needs to get done do not align IRL. Not enough people want to deal with waste systems or sanitation yet those are critical to any society.
This isn't Star Trek. We don't live in a magical future where all the dangerous yet necessary work is automated.
They'll want to clean the sewer when the sewer needs cleaning, the same way that you "want" to vacuum your home even if you don't want to do it.
That requires a ton of people who know how to maintain sewage systems from experience. You aren’t getting that from volunteers and you’ll need these people in every community.
You missing the point. People will do work when it is required whether or not they desire to do work. It doesn't require a magic job creator to get work done.
YOU are missing the point. At no time have I cited the need for capitalist ownership of this system but rather an need for unequal and naturally higher payment for those that do these jobs. They cannot be volunteer positions as they require experienced people.
Do you have any idea how these systems function IRL?
Yea, I can fix a shitter if I have to.
That is irrelevant to understanding sewage systems. Your skill set isn’t fixing water-main problems around electrical equipment for example.
Anarchism is a field dream for artists who couldn’t understand civil engineering.
have you met many people?
most people don't want to clean their homes. they want to pay someone else to do it.
But I get 100% of the benefit of vacuuming my home; there's no free rider problem.
Tell that to your kids.