Raghu writes: >> At a certain level this is the wrong question to ask. Who says there >> has to be a full-time janitor who has to do this thankless job for >> wages? Even today, don't people clean up after their pets themselves? >> Don't college roommates take turns to clean their own house? Do you >> ask the question "in a socialist society, who will clean up after the >> pets"? >> >> Division of labor makes sense for high-skill craftsman-like work, but >> for janitorial work?? I mean, the premise behind your question itself >> seems to me to be highly questionable..
But what if I, an individual living in a socialist society, have no subjective interest or desire in performing janitorial services? Maybe there will be a happy coincidence that there will be people who "want" to perform such services, so I will not "have" to do my share. But what if there is not such a happy coincidence? Could I be "required" to do something in a socialist society? If I am "required" to perform such service, there will have to be a mechanism to "require" me to perform such a service. How would that mechanism work, and why would not that mechanism be philosophically incompatible with the experiential status of freedom as opposed to necessity? David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
