• themoken@startrek.website
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    7 hours ago

    You don’t think people would volunteer to maintain sewers or collect garbage if the alternative was shit/trash everywhere?

    To me it just looks like an easy way to do your community a service.

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      6 hours ago

      Let me put it this way: maybe society is so filled with angels that things like this wouldn’t be a problem.

      Regardless, we should probably set up incentive structures such that pro-social behavior is rewarded rather than depending on the kindness of everyone’s hearts, and being completely fucked otherwise.

      Also, it’s still going to be more efficient for one person to go around collecting their neighbors’ trash and driving it to the dump, and it kinda sounds like someone’s gonna still end up doing that, they just won’t be getting paid for it.

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          3 hours ago

          That could work for something like garbage collection, where the stakes and skill level are relatively low. But there’s also jobs that are critical and high skill, like operating a power plant. You’re probably going to want the same people doing that consistently, and again, it’s relying on skilled people sacrificing a lot of time and energy, with no clear reward or incentive.