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 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.