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How do we ensure the correct amount of people are doing the correct amount of work? The good thing about markets is that when demand is high and supply is low it suddenly becomes lucrative to do that thing and it attracts people to doing said thing. It becomes self correcting. If you leave people to just do what they most want to do everybody will choose to do what they consider fun rather than what is needed.
What's wrong with doing what's fun? Necessity is an interesting motivator. The problem is when capitalists commoditize necessity.
There's nothing wrong with having fun, but if people just did what they wanted to do all the time, society would just straight up collapse.
How likely is it that people's preferred jobs match up with exactly what is needed?
Squirrels don't have jobs. There isn't some overly complex system in place to keep the raccoons doing a repetitive task to ensure that hollowed or trees are available to them. The spiders don't own those trees and almost exclusively benefit from the raccoon's labor.
Human society should absolutely collapse if it can't exist without all the inequality and suffering.
We aren't any of those animals though so I don't see how it's relevant to the discussion. We have evolved to form societies, and as such we need to work out the best frameworks given our fundamental human nature.
Other animals are in intense life and death competition with each other generally. There is not a single animal I'd rather be than a human. Non human wild animals have excruciatingly tough existences.
You're right. We aren't those animals; we're apes. Still animals though. Animals form communities. They feel emotions. They have problem solving skills. They communicate. They also can deviate from observed behaviors when food and safety are readily available. You don't think that's relevant? Hmm... That says a lot.
There are plenty of humans who are in intense life or death competitions with each other. What you mean to say is that you're happy being male, likely white and have McDonald's within driving distance.
I think you've gone completely off the rails here. You said everyone should be free to just do the job they want. I pointed out that perhaps what people want to do wouldn't match up with what actually needs to be done. You started banging on about squirrels rather than admit that what I said is actually probably the case.
I've never denied humans aren't in intense competition with each other. I just don't think it's relevant to point to squirrels as an example of how humans should work, they clearly are very different from us.
Alright. What needs to be done?
What, in the world generally? Do you genuinely want me to list every job that needs doing?
Go ahead and list a few.
You'll forgive me for not doing that just because you've entirely missed the point of my argument.
Other animals are in intense life and death competition with each other generally.
Humans on the other hand, travel to the other half of the earth in order to kill other humans because they're afraid that other humans will destroy their economy in the other side of the earth.
Talk to me more about the superiority of humans over animals. I'm listening
I'd rather not engage with you. This conversation has derailed into silliness.
Goodbye