I would either give medical school a try or I don’t know, I would really like to be involved in re-education, finding ways to de-chudify and de-libify people without bringing them to physical or emotional harm. Just helping people learn would be cool too. But obviously if the workers want me working in a mine, that’s fine with me as well.
Work in a coal mine.
I hope I don't end up at the poetry factory :(
This. I'd have considered life as a high school teacher but I can't stand the thought of dealing with parents when I try to cubapill their children.
I do love teaching college though, so or there's still higher Ed I'd probably keep doing it. Maybe a mix of the two....
If there's still academic publishing in an ethical manner I might try to publish a paper or two in my spare time, but if compensation were more equitable between teaching and research faculty I feel like I'd be more interested in teaching. I do love both.
I probably keep farming. People gotta eat, the climate is shifting, with every year I am learning more and more about soil and sustainability. I got a damned job to do. :meow-tankie:
...In Minecraft, but only until our server has a dripstone lava cauldron filler. :pika-pickaxe:
Real talk, I think there are some people so fundamentally traumatized by capitalism that there may have to be huge groups of them just not working or working very, very casually and otherwise not "contributing." And, like, getting therepy and re-education.
I also think there will be a lot of peoples who will be doing cultural reclamation, climate mitigation projects that would be seen as more negative value. Like dudes whose job it is is to maintain a forest or wetland and coppice trees to bury them down below as a carbon sequestration thing.
Personally, I'd be fine with doing what I'm doing now. Construction and dry wall. I mainly just hate my boss not the actual work.
This is a real thing. Its the difference between the official "unemployment" numbers and the number of working age people who don't work. The criteria for "unemployment" are cooked in a specific way to get that value, and a lot of people who potentially could work are excluded.
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198
Interesting, yeah I know labor force participation isn't 100% but I also think we might see a drop in that rate (if it's something we'll even measure for whatever reason) in the decades following revolution. Because I think there will be a lot of otherwise physically healthy adults that really just can't work, I'd consider them having an official pension due to their involuntary service in the class war and especially when we were losing...
Starhawk had a great portrayal of an anarchist grocery store in one of her novels. Instead of stocking shelves, it was a warehouse store like WinCo, and the workers were hanging out, making decorative displays, playing, flirting, climbing up the boxes. I think even food distribution has the potential to be joyous.
Not live in fear of dying on the street because I have a disability and can't really work. I'd like to spend my time doing that.
uh.. Other than that landscaping was fine. I'd do landscaping if I got real vacation time and could take time off if I pulled something.
Physical labor would be so much less oppressive if you know you won't be just thrown away if you're injured or wear out your body.
Converting suburban lawns into community gardens. By gunpoint, if necessary.
Probably just play video games, hang out with friends and have fun 24/7 tbh lol. I'm not a very ambitious person.
There's a place in my town where they cast huge-ass aluminum ingots mainly out of reclaimed/recycled aluminum & I'd really like to do that if the hours weren't insane (right now they do some weird 3-on/2-off 12hr shift rotation, which I absolutely will not do because it is impossible to live a life outside of work on that, IMO). I'd also like to do weightlifting & do boardgaming stuff tho.
The most tedious shit that nobody wants to do. But one day a week I get to be DJ. The other 5 days I'm in the garden
One of the primary reasons I am a socialist is that capitalism is unequipped to handle climate change. There are many things that we could be doing right now to prevent climate change, but aren't doing because they aren't profitable. "After the revolution" I could see myself being heavily involved in a climate task force.
Scientist still, but definitely would do fewer hours to raise children/take care of my aging folks.
