Civil Service

The question I never really had a good answer for. “If everything is free and provided for, who’s gonna want to do the shitty jobs?”

Who’s gonna be the sidewalk shovelers, who’s gonna be the the shit shovelers, who’s gonna farm the fields, who’s gonna mine the mines, who’s gonna inspect and construct infrastructure?

Well, the people of course. Some people will act out of the goodness of their hearts, but some people will need a lil motivation. I don’t know if I’d want to be a farmer, or construction worker, or cave miner full time. But If I got a letter in the mail that read:

“America needs you to spend the next X – Y Weeks or Months working with a group of randomly selected people to build a railway or hospital or plow a field or do anything besides war crimes, will you serve your country?”

I’d honestly be excited. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m having trouble making friends in the modern day. This would be an opportunity to travel, to socialize, to gain knowledge and skills. If my job security was guaranteed, and I got rewarded before during and/or after the process, and I got to meaningfully impact my community, AND I was tax exempt from whatever service I was providing, I’d sign up for that in a heartbeat.

That’s the offer we’ve got going on with the military (minus the part barring war crimes) and I’ve never considered taking that. Something about destroying my mind to be a pawn in an oil war just didn’t feel worth it to me.

Whenever an essential economic sector has a shortage of labor, we must call upon the people to act in the benefit of their neighbors. As seen by how Mayor Mamdani handled the snow in new york, If you give the people a little cheddar and some pride they’ll get the Job done. We don’t need to consign our poorest and most desperate citizens to a lifetime of abusive labor. We can all pitch in.