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Originally Posted by limey
... if all jobs paid equally, I'd rather be providing personal care to old people in a residential home than [selling soap for a living].
If all jobs paid equally, wouldn't it be glorious to have the freedom to choose what you want to do, rather than what you have to do for the bucks?
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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
Actually that sounds like hell to me. What do you do with the jobs no one wants to do?
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The jobs that "no-one" wants to do - you mean like washing faeces off a person who has no control over their bowels and suffered diarrhoea in the night? That is [part of] what I meant by "providing personal care". I can't say I relished that part of the job, but I accepted that it was part of what I should expect. Others would, and do, of course, refuse to consider such employment precisely because it can involve that sort of task. See also what DanaC said about her client who wanted to work at the town rubbish dump.
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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
What do you do with artists and inventors? Steal their products? They don't get to say what the value of their inventions are?...
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I also create hand-knit items. I have one for sale in a local shop. I don't get a say in what it's worth - the "market" values my skilled labour at around $2/hour, if that. No, of course, I have a "say" - sell it at that price or give it away ...
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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
...I can't help but see the denial of freedom as an illness. It is against nature.
If communism is so awesome someone would actually be doing it and people would be in line waiting to get into that nation, end of story.
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I repeat that communism is a great idea, but probably unworkable because of human greed. Doesn't mean I can't have a dream, does it?