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“But who will clean toilets if everyone gets UBI?
Maybe… the people who want to do it, at a fair wage? Maybe... the task will get automated?
Maybe the real question is: why do we accept that some jobs should be so miserable and underpaid that people only do them out of desperation?
#UBI forces us to value labor instead of exploiting it and it gives us the freedom to choose the jobs we take. 
@ubi4me the people who use them will share the task?
@ubi4me@mastodon.world maybe the people who use those toilets will be the ones to clean them?
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On Abortion: "Every life is sacred!"
On Fair Wages: "Fuck those lazy bastards! Let them die!"
@ubi4me That's the real question. Can a society function without the threat of hunger and homelessness (or prison and firing squads) to motivate people to work? Most people assume no.
@mike805 I think society can function without threats to any of it's members. 
What do you **personally** think? Would you be motivated to work without a threat?
@ubi4me Japan manages to keep them clean through a combination of communal responsibility for communal spaces and a variation of karma.
CEOs will clean public toilets without saying a thing about it because of the belief it will pay itself back somehow.
It shouldn't sound quite so alien if we actually practiced what we preach here. "It takes a village," "they have their reward," etc.
@ubi4me That is the point - these are lousy jobs, but there will be people who are prepared to do this - if paid enough. Not people who have to do this to live.
And this applies to all the low paid, zero-hours jobs too.