i feel that this issue resolves itself. i will never take seriously the concern that a significant group of humans will just neglect things which need to be done. that has never been true of any society in the history of this world, it simply is not how our species operates. if we need food, we will acquire food. if we need more medical experts, people will become medical experts. if we need to build a dam, we will build a dam. someone will do it.
just because capitalism has disrupted this process does not mean it won't be true once we dismantle capitalism
i will never take seriously the concern that a significant group of humans will just neglect things which need to be done.
I mean, look at how we "handled" Covid. A huge percentage of the population couldn't be fucked to do bare-minimum stuff like not going to superspreader events. I think we're a lot less responsible than you describe. You can also look at rural America, where there are shortages of all sorts of services, and get a picture of how willing people are to spontaneously provide these things.
Capitalism is surely to blame for a good chunk of this -- if you had your basic needs guaranteed, a lot more people would work in rural America and provide those services -- but I don't think it's entirely to blame. A lot of people generally follow the path of least resistance, and humans have a lot of psychological tools for rationalizing away the suffering of others. None of these are insurmountable problems, but I don't think we can count on them resolving themselves.
This is absolutely a base/superstructure problem created by the capitalist mode of production. Changing the mode of production will in turn change the superstructure of our society and resolve a lot of these contradictions.
i feel that this issue resolves itself. i will never take seriously the concern that a significant group of humans will just neglect things which need to be done. that has never been true of any society in the history of this world, it simply is not how our species operates. if we need food, we will acquire food. if we need more medical experts, people will become medical experts. if we need to build a dam, we will build a dam. someone will do it.
just because capitalism has disrupted this process does not mean it won't be true once we dismantle capitalism
I mean, look at how we "handled" Covid. A huge percentage of the population couldn't be fucked to do bare-minimum stuff like not going to superspreader events. I think we're a lot less responsible than you describe. You can also look at rural America, where there are shortages of all sorts of services, and get a picture of how willing people are to spontaneously provide these things.
Capitalism is surely to blame for a good chunk of this -- if you had your basic needs guaranteed, a lot more people would work in rural America and provide those services -- but I don't think it's entirely to blame. A lot of people generally follow the path of least resistance, and humans have a lot of psychological tools for rationalizing away the suffering of others. None of these are insurmountable problems, but I don't think we can count on them resolving themselves.
This is absolutely a base/superstructure problem created by the capitalist mode of production. Changing the mode of production will in turn change the superstructure of our society and resolve a lot of these contradictions.