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They wouldn't do the specific petty stuff that the masters of capital want.
People will try to cure the sick, advance science, or even empty the dustbins because they see a benefit in having a nicer world to live in, or even an ego boost.
They will not spend forty hours per week in a box trying to optimize some microscopic risk factor in a credit algorithm without the threat of starvation. There's no bhy-in so they had to manufacture it.
Okay, where do we find the volunteers to haul garbage and unclog sewers who are just in it for the love of the game?
Isn't that just emptying the dustbins on a grander scale?
Go into the sewers to break up a fatberg in a literal river of raw sewage and then try to tell me it's just emptying dustbins on a grander scale. There are a lot of jobs that are vital to a functional society that nobody wants to do, things that only get done because they get paid a lot to do it.
If thé work is hard, needed and so pénible nobody want to do it. It should be really well paid
Scream your priviledge why dont you. No its not like that at all.
Why don't we start by allowing/training volunteers to do it and see? You'd be surprised what people are willing to step up when given the opportunity.
I'd volunteer to help build robots that do it for us.
People who play garbage truck simulator
People who play garbage truck simulator don't have to smell the work themselves nor ever have to actually lift a single trash can. Definitely not the same thing.