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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and ‘developed my career’ and now im ‘successful’ but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.
So when people ask ‘who fixes toilets under communism?’ my answer is a resounding ‘me. I will fix the toilets.’
This is a joke right? Like those jobs are grueling as fuck and require very particular people to be interested/capable.
Not to say standing on the back of an asphalt machine is easy. Roadwork is pretty hard, not just physically and logistically, but making a nice even layer out rocks and oil-residue is actually not simple at all.
Everything is hard but very few people have still enough hands to even be considered neurosurgeons or an interest in using meth in order to perform the insane surgeries (need to stay awake and concentrate). Further few are capable of dehumanising people enough in order to be able to cut into them.
Plenty of people are interested in enough things to cover them but neurosurgery at least is almost life destroying in what it demands. I’ve never met anyone entirely whole that’s a neurosurgeon, so it’s kinda weird to imagine people would want to flock to it and we wouldn’t have enough people happy to do other work.
You’re absolutely right, but if the choice is replacing your truck suspension for $1,000 every 2 years or poorly patching the road outside your house for a days worth of work and $100 in materials a year…
It’s not optimal, but needs must. A poor road repair is still cheaper than none.
Edit: While my comment sorta makes sense, I really thought you were replying to the guy who talked about his neighbors doing road repair. But that’s not who you were replying to!
I replied in a context that does not exist. Sorry!