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it's a matter of motivation (infosec.pub)
submitted 18 hours ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 52 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

When people are like "nobody would want to sweep the floors!!!1!1!1!1" all I can think of is this dude on YouTube that just goes around clearing drains and culverts cause he likes it.

There's a particular flavor of person for everything and even if it's not something you love to do, it's something people would be willing to do if it's not something you have to do 40 hours a week or your family starves.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The gamble is if there's enough of these people in the right places to keep society running.

I'm not as confident as a lot of people seem to be that there are/would be. And that's ignoring the aspects of training, physical ability, etc and just considering interest/desire.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

With UBI, it doesn't mean there aren't any jobs at all. It means that you need to incentivise people with enough money that they actually want to do that job. Better than the alternative of paying someone a poverty wage so they can try to keep a roof over their head.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

The way things are sucks, so maybe we should roll the dice then.

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Still I can't see how someone would volunteer working as a swimming pool life guard, though

[–] Dack@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Just heard someone who exactly wants to do that.

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Still I can't see how someone would volunteer working as a swimming pool life guard, though

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 13 points 16 hours ago

This sort of thing is unironically the best thing about Youtube. It lets people do things like this, and make money from their activities through sharing them with the world. Obviously the money isn't the motive, but I'm sure he appreciates the Youtube revenue on the side, and it means people get to see someone doing something good that they'd otherwise be oblivious to, which helps the perception that there are, in fact, good people out there.