Post #1230263

2026-04-08 13:02 UTC

I don't think I can see a way to actually accomplish that without still ending up with negative outcomes. Take for example a surgeon, one who is a specialist who's time is 100% occupied saving people. Does he get taken away from that to do his time as a garbage collector? Do you tell the patient "sorry, you are going to die. You could have been saved, but we needed your surgeon to go pick up garbage.", or do you have an exemption list? And if there's an exemption list, you will never convince me that people wouldn't start abusing who is and isn't on that list. You arrive right back to having a class society.

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@bearboiblake@pawb.social 2026-04-08 13:04

Why would you cancel a surgery to do trash collection? Why not just make it so everyone has one day a week dedicated to chores, for example? We all do our chores at home, right? Why not for the benefit of our communities? The surgery can be scheduled for a day a surgeon is available. I'm sure there would be many surgeons in a world without student debt, enough for them each to spare a few hours mucking in just like everyone else, right? I'm sure someone has the ability of figuring out some kind of schedule to ensure adequate emergency medical coverage despite medical personnel having other obligations. I know we can do that because we already do it. Surgeons take time off work and people don't die because of it.

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