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This sounds exciting but without UBI and UHC (housing and health) it just feels like a half measure. Engaging in necessary skilled labor is the ideal (liberal arts and sciences) - the next best is un-skilled necessary labor (grocery delivery lives here) and after that skilled un-necessary labor (eg visual and audible/musical arts skills crafts games) and finally that leaves us with un-skilled in-necessary labor (Vices live here). If we have universal mutual aid as a guiding principal it would let people move towards where they need and want to be as their lower level maslavian needs would be apriori.

The reality as well is that many necessary forms of labor can be fulfilled by unskilled labor if we try (Automation lives here).



Can you give me some examples of skilled liberal arts labor that is in demand? I've always heard a liberal arts degree was a bad investment.


Yeah, who pays for that? You burden half the population with 50 hour work weeks to pay for the other half to sit on their ass? You call liberal arts "necessary"? No, farming and trucking is necessary. Blue collar labor is necessary. White collar labor is a luxury.


I would go further. If no one is willing to pay for it, it isn't labor, it's a hobby/leisure.




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