findingfeather:

beyondthisdarkhouse:

hellsite-yano:

memento-mari-1402:

hotgirlsrk:

if capitalism didn’t exist what would your dream job be. btw if you say something like ‘engineer’ i’ll kill you

What’s… what’s wrong with engineer. Do you honestly think people will stop needing bridges. or water filtration plants. or electricity. or assistive devices. or. or. or. post-capitalism OP.

Hundreds Killed as Building Collapses in Leftist Commune

LITERALLY. Or it goes up in flames from an overloaded electrical system and no fire exits.

I DO dream of labour. There is worthwhile and meaningful work in the world, and I want to do it!

In a post-capitalism world there will still be rivers to cross, sick people to nurse, crops to be harvested, computers to program, and buildings to maintain. Some of the work will be dull and unfulfilling and necessary!

But you’d better HOPE we get enough engineers and building inspectors and fire safety marshals and janitors and maintenance workers and bricklayers and auto mechanics and electricians. Otherwise you’d better be ready to drastically reduce your standard of living.

People confuse “non-capitalist” (ie organized for motives other than the acquisition of profit within a model where those who accumulate capital are necessary for large enterprises) with “magically somehow work will be unneeded” and also apparently get confused about how actually right now one of the problems we have is that lots of people who’d LIKE to be engineers and indeed would be GOOD engineers have no opportunity to do so because of the structures of power and opportunities that underlie our current system.