Make a census of the shittiest fucking work on Earth and start automating from there. In 10 years the shittiest job will be feeling ennui smoking a long cigarette under a crescent moon on a little Perisian rooftop
Make a census of the shittiest fucking work on Earth and start automating from there. In 10 years the shittiest job will be feeling ennui smoking a long cigarette under a crescent moon on a little Perisian rooftop
I think it’s more relevant in the context of public and workplace restrooms. Of course people are expected to clean their toilets at home, but who will clean the 500 toilets at the dicksucking factory? Pulling dicksuckers off the line to clean all the toilets is going to really put a dent in factory output.
This is exactly how, for example, the US Military does it. Set aside a few hours per week for cleaning, have a list of daily/weekly/monthly cleaning tasks, and have everyone do them together. We could even dream big and imagine it being done without the hazing and time wasting that the military is famous for adding to the process. Yeah it reduces output but having a dirty factory where people are getting sick or can’t use the toilets also reduces output, so I think the rational thing is to include incidental labor like this into the input-output equation of the factory when you plan it.
But there are definitely a lot of jobs that suck that you would have to incentivize people to go into, but hey wouldn’t you know it every socialist country has figured out how to do exactly that and it usually isn’t done at gunpoint (looking at Pol Pot here).
I once worked for an ex marine that did this. The company wasn’t big, there was only one bathroom. Once a week someone would clean the break area and the bathroom. It was rotational. Everyone would clean their areas in the rest of the building. Every Friday at 4:00. We were a production based business but everyone was kind of mentally checked out by that time on Friday anyways. He did it mainly because he was cheap. It was easier to pay employees to clean for an hour than to hire a cleaner to come in. Honestly, it’s not a bad thing to do. It gave you a break from work-work and you could zone out while turning your brain to weekend mode.
My biggest issue with how the military does it is that there is a class of people (officers) who don’t have to clean, and in many cases don’t even have to clean their personal spaces.
Yeah, and I feel like it can be abstracted to assume that it’s some crappy and undesirable job. There’s nothing special, in the context of the argument, about the toilets - just illustrative of being undesirable.
i think at specifically the dick sucking factory you have a built-in downtime on the part of the suckees and they could be cleaning the toilets then.
Your right i didnt even consider the dicksuckers when thinking about this issue. My bad.