redgreenapple t1_irflqvn wrote on October 7, 2022 at 6:34 PM

Reply to comment by SentientHotdogWater in Moneyless economy simulator by shanoshamanizum

I mean I also wipe my own ass, doesn’t mean I’m going to put on gear and scuba in a pool of shit to unclog the city’s feces pipes

SentientHotdogWater t1_irfoa5g wrote on October 7, 2022 at 6:54 PM

I'm confused. Why do you do the dishes and wipe your own ass if nobody pays you to do it? What's the profit motive?

redgreenapple t1_irg2i9y wrote on October 7, 2022 at 8:44 PM

That is so interesting that this confuses you well let me try to explain

the benefit you get from wiping your own ass is that you don’t walk around with shit all over your butt cheeks, and possibly even running down the inner side of your legs, the benefit of washing your dishes isn’t you don’t live in filth and your home is not infested with cockroaches and other lovely little insects. That’s the payment that you get from doing your own dishes and that’s the payment that you get from wiping your own ass

on the other hand, going into a pool of shit and gear to scuba and unclog the the city pipes for the benefit of all your he d the well is not happening not unless you’re paid for it

A personal and immediate benefit can and will motivate people. A benefit for the greater good. Indirect and long term? Lol good luck with that. This is a dumb idea. Sorry

OlinKirkland t1_irvhhd9 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 10:47 AM

He's actually comparing a task anyone can do for 10 minutes a day to a task performed by trained professionals for 8 hours a day. It's cognitive dissonance. It's incredibly disingenuous.

SentientHotdogWater t1_irfrbpc wrote on October 7, 2022 at 7:17 PM

>I’m going to put on gear and scuba in a pool of shit to unclog the city’s feces pipes

Also would you really rather live in a society with no plumbing/sewer/septic system than having to unclog the pipes every once in a while?

Wouldn't living in a city of millions with everyone using the street as an open sewer be more disgusting than having to unclog the pipes every once in a while?

And surely we could automate something like that. I refuse to believe that we're capable of building a robot that can fly to Mars and take alien soil samples but we can't build a robot to unclog pipes.