• Red_October@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Okay, where do we find the volunteers to haul garbage and unclog sewers who are just in it for the love of the game?

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      7 days ago

      Should be fun to make new tools that make this job easier. But who has time for that?..

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        7 days ago

        Lot of people think it’d be fun to make the tools. Nobody volunteering to be the one wading around a clogged sewer.

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          7 days ago

          You make it seem like theres a vital job in which you have to dive into a literal pool of shit. When you have good equipment, cleaning things is actually pretty satisfying.

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            7 days ago

            It still requires going down into a backed up sewer and breaking up a mass of congealed fat and human waste that is blocking a river of more human waste. This isn’t sitting back on a nice spring day being satisfied as you powerwash an old sidewalk.

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        8 days ago

        Go into the sewers to break up a fatberg in a literal river of raw sewage and then try to tell me it’s just emptying dustbins on a grander scale. There are a lot of jobs that are vital to a functional society that nobody wants to do, things that only get done because they get paid a lot to do it.

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          7 days ago

          If thé work is hard, needed and so pénible nobody want to do it. It should be really well paid

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      7 days ago

      Why don’t we start by allowing/training volunteers to do it and see? You’d be surprised what people are willing to step up when given the opportunity.

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        7 days ago

        People who play garbage truck simulator don’t have to smell the work themselves nor ever have to actually lift a single trash can. Definitely not the same thing.