I think we would probably have to re-imagine our relationship with garbage to some extent. Take more personal responsibility for the garbage we create. Being a garbage collector would probably be a much more respected position too since they’re doing something that directly benefits the community.
Garbage collection doesn’t have to be a life sentence either. Maybe it’s just something you work for a couple months at a time. If people don’t care about the community littering would still be a problem. But is anarchism even possible if people don’t care about their community?
Anarchism is cool, but I really just want people to care about the place they live in and the people that live around them. I think a lot of other problems solve themselves after that.
I won’t say anything bad about garbage collectors, I feel pride for them of anything, because they do the most important work that nobody wants to do
Having said that, I think we should maybe implement something where each person obligatory has to do something like this, every so often. Let CEO’s pick up garbage too, they too generate it, usually most of it
That’s just an extension of the “who would clean the bathrooms?” “problem” (not really a serious issue just a lazy pro-capitalist-ideology rhetorical device)
Answer: The bathrooms need to be cleaned, so people would find a way to organize it being done.
Oh, just like garbage collection (and other things people don’t necessarily want/love to do) happened before/outside of capitalism.
I’ll play
Garbage collection
I think we would probably have to re-imagine our relationship with garbage to some extent. Take more personal responsibility for the garbage we create. Being a garbage collector would probably be a much more respected position too since they’re doing something that directly benefits the community.
Garbage collection doesn’t have to be a life sentence either. Maybe it’s just something you work for a couple months at a time. If people don’t care about the community littering would still be a problem. But is anarchism even possible if people don’t care about their community?
Yeah, that all sounds very nice. Now tell that to the average dumbass joe who doesn’t care…
Anarchism is cool, but I really just want people to care about the place they live in and the people that live around them. I think a lot of other problems solve themselves after that.
I won’t say anything bad about garbage collectors, I feel pride for them of anything, because they do the most important work that nobody wants to do
Having said that, I think we should maybe implement something where each person obligatory has to do something like this, every so often. Let CEO’s pick up garbage too, they too generate it, usually most of it
That’s just an extension of the “who would clean the bathrooms?” “problem” (not really a serious issue just a lazy pro-capitalist-ideology rhetorical device)
Answer: The bathrooms need to be cleaned, so people would find a way to organize it being done.
Oh, just like garbage collection (and other things people don’t necessarily want/love to do) happened before/outside of capitalism.
literally just get gloves and a respirator and its just moving stuff from a bin to a truck
But most places have publicly owned garbage collection, no?