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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and ‘developed my career’ and now im ‘successful’ but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask ‘who fixes toilets under communism?’ my answer is a resounding ‘me. I will fix the toilets.’

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
    283·
    7 months ago

    “Under communism you fix your own damn toilet” is a bit of a hard sale I’d say

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      7 months ago

      This is already the case if you’re poor under capitalism. I have to fix literally everything if it’s broken.

    • ZipitydewEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

      It’s also terribly inefficient. We could do what we already know works better which is train some people who then help others. That way people can become a specialist at a skill they’re suited for.

      • daltotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I dunno I mean a toilet’s pretty uncomplicated and I don’t see that changing too much. Just get the bean counters to run the numbers on making an idiot proof toilet that’s made so like at least 1 in 3 people can repair it without formal training or instructions, against the expense of having a bunch of guys, maybe real plumbers, running around fixing all the toilets.

      • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        7 months ago

        I disagree. First of all, a trained craftsment for sanitary and heating installations has to think about stuff like where to put pipes, which angles to observe, which diameters are necessary… All of this does not matter for fixing an existing installation.

        And second, when people learn the basic principles of it, they also learn how to better maintain things so they need less fixing in the first place. Also if there is no profit incentive, there is no incentive to provide overengineered but easily breaking systems but rather straightforward and reliable ones. For instance the hardest part of fixing my washing machine by myself was finding what the god damn error code meant.