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 genuinely know people who really like cleaning, bathrooms included. If it wasn’t a stigmatized, underpaid and abused position in society they would surely be willing to do it even without improvement of the literal work beyond scrubbing and harsh chemicals. Making the working conditions better would just be a bonus. (not to mention it can be split up amongst a larger group of people)
The nice thing about being a janitor, speaking from professional experience, is that nobody bothers you. They don’t want to give you an opening where you might ask for help. Also, as long as you’re properly equipped and have a reasonable work load it really isn’t bad work.
Yeah I guess I was thinking more of situations where the lowest-rung employee gets the bathroom-cleaning duties thrust upon them, like restaurants or stingy small offices/shops. That has the potential to be nasty.
But in an institution of any reasonable size I suppose you have a dedicated janitor who is (hopefully) less shit upon. I knew a guy once who was just an independent cleaner, he’d come around every week after hours with his van and vacuum your offices and clean/stock your bathrooms and such (for smallish businesses). He just would jam out to tunes and work solo all evening, it seemed peaceful. He did say he got jumped once, so he’s pretty twitchy if he runs into people unexpectedly, but nothing worse than that.
Plus in my area at least all the big office tower janitors are union
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A larger group of people would be nice. I clean an office space once a week for what probably would be good pay if I cleaned more often, but they don’t even want more often even if ignoring my disability. I mainly clean the bathrooms while my sibling cleans other parts of the office. It’s not all that bad, I guess, my brain just fucking sucks and makes everything in life feel like the end of the world. But if we got all the people who enjoy cleaning together and let them clean without judgement or exploitation, like you say, I think everywhere would be a much cleaner place. I mean, we kinda figured this out with hacking. Companies discovered they can pay people to hack them with the condition that they tell them what exploit they used. Of course that’s not really ethical to help big companies protect themselves, but I can see where a post-capitalist world would have a good use for that kind of thing.