I do think the anarchists have the right idea with this one and everybody should rotate like 2-3 months of the year doing critical hard labor like this. No, your ordinary work is not "too valuable" for you to be exempted from it. If you don't experience the work that goes into maintaining the basic conditions of your modern existence it's easy to become ungrateful and alienated from the material realities of your society.
In the advanced capitalist countries of the world, employment in agriculture is under 5%. Under 2% in the USA. If we cycled this work it would just be a couple of weeks per worker. I'm not against the idea, but it probably just makes more sense to focus on agricultural productivity and automation.
in china and japan i have friends who studied K-12 there and they do cleaning amd stuff, not hard labor and i'd imagine it is better than sitting a desk.
places will always need to be cleaned, fostering that in youth would be a great virtue to instill.
also as a guy i learned how to clean a bit in school bcuz i was keener and wanted to suck up to teachers
One of the greatest crimes the commies did in Eastern Europe was forcing the aristocrats to work like peasants. Just imagine! A countess! Working with peasant women! The horror!
Here's how liberal historians write about this crime:
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"The planning and execution of the 1951 Budapest deportations by the Hungarian political leadership aimed to achieve multiple objectives simultaneously. In the spirit of the intensifying class struggle, they intended to deliver yet another blow to the former social elite, who, despite having lost their economic and political influence due to nationalizations and blacklisting, still lived in relatively closed communities in Budapest's inner districts, forming a sort of social network. This "enclave," at the height of Third World War hysteria, also represented the vision that in the event of a military conflict, these socially hostile groups would remain a "Trojan horse" in the heart of the country, in the middle of the capital.
Additionally, the element of the measures involving the relocation of Budapest deportees to wealthier peasant farmers, termed "kulaks" in contemporary language, in the non-cooperative villages of the eastern counties of the country, was also conceived in the spirit of class struggle. This was intended to exacerbate the tensions between these already geographically and socially distant groups. The military logic, specifically Stalin's vision of the rapidly approaching Third World War, also justified that the deportations were exclusively directed towards Eastern Hungary, closer to the Soviet border, ensuring that the hostile elements remained sufficiently isolated even after the onset of wartime conditions.
A more practical consideration, however, was that through the deportations, the state could acquire several thousand generally high-quality inner Budapest properties. This was essential for establishing the economic status of the new social elite amid scarce housing conditions.
The deportations, which took place between May 21 and July 18, 1951, affected over five thousand families, at least 12,000–14,000 individuals. According to statistical summaries, one-third of the deportees (33%) had served as military officers before 1945, more than one-fifth (23%) were members of the economic elite (wholesalers, bank directors, factory owners or directors), about 17% were former state officials, 6% were policemen, and another 6% were former aristocrats."
I don't know about you, but I was nodding like Jack Nicholson in the famous gif. Certain 1%-er families who were part of the elite in the regime that committed the white terror and the holocaust were froced to live like serfs for a couple of years. Again, these stories are recounted as a deportation that is comparable to the ethnic cleansing and genocide that was done by these elites...
Anyway, this was a tangent. Everyone able should do some kind of manual labor in their life at some point.
This lady is a joke but it wasn't just the 1% that was forced into labor, all academics were including my grandpa who made a meager salary at a local university. He was forced to work on a tobacco farm where he picked up smoking and contracted the lung cancer that took his life. I don't want to say the service idea in the post is wrong or that the sicko concubine beating, foot binding oligarchs who once ruled China didn't deserve to get destroyed, but because the CCP's policy was so callously sweeping it hurt a lot of innocent people.
Japanese people already do this. The kids do menial tasks like cleaning their classrooms, cooking, and serving each other
Che was big on this, too.
Global chore list
i want to do it so bad, just like give me some training wheels and make it so i dont get yelled at too much. thats what got in the way in my past attempts.
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This is a pipe dream to even try to figure out how you would coordinate it but I've thought for a long time it would be cool to do office work half the week and actually work a trade thenother half.
Would deffinitly help with burnout to not be doing the exact same job every day for decades.
The challenge would be making sure everybody got a decent wage through it which would basically require getting rid of wages.
My friend works in a farming co-op, and they rotate the jobs for it through the year, he can be actually farming for a month, then another month being cashier on the store and so on.
i volunteered one (1) halfday on an organic farm and it was a tremendous, unacceptable amount of work. harvest root vegetables at 7am, wash them in the coldest water you've ever felt at 730am, pack the CSA boxes for pickup, harvest wheat by hand (spoiler: it's pointy like foxtails), manually kill bugs, i don't really remember what else we did. but we ended by picking sun-warmed strawberries around 12pm and they were the best strawberries i've ever eaten.
farming is exhausting and no child should be expected to do it except voluntarily
This is what Concerned Ape won't tell you. We gotta make a cottagecore farming simulator that feels awful to play.
Yesterday I delivered three overripe bananas via bicycle to someone in my neighborhood so they could bake banana bread and I was like this is the most stardew ass quest I have ever done
Children? Not unless it’s done under some serious supervision so they don’t get abused, but if it was it would be a good learning environment, like a camp where you learn for a few weeks of the year is fine.
As a learning opportunity, yes. But they shouldn’t be considered “productive assets” or whatever
Yeah I lived with a middle class British girl that had to do farm work for 6 months in country Australia for her visa and it changed her outlook on manual labour and the working class.
Like she did bartending and barista work before so not unfamiliar with the working class and their struggles but 6 months of having to get up before dawn to work in a field to enrich her millionaire employers caused her to develop class consciousness and solidarity in real time.
Going from "Be nice to your bartender even if they make a mistake :)' to breaking up with her boyfriend of 1.5 years because he was like "the working poor should just start their own business if they don't want to be poor" (he had a drop shipping """business""" that started with a loan from his grandparents and also it barely made any money)
Crazy what 3 seasons of doing a farm show does to a man
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I mean nothing wrong with making privileged teens work in some shit job for a while. Rather than never doing remotely difficult work (even a shit fast food job) breeds the most ghoulish boug children.
Obviously not kids, but 17-20 is prime time for this shit
There is 0% chance any policy championed by the likes of Clarkson would primarily inconvenience the rich and privileged.
Let's be real if this law ever passes it'll gatekeep social housing and the NHS behind hard labor on a farm or some shit. Rich kids will just ignore it or there'll be a carveout for college or something.
Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
National Service happens after you leave school at 18, it's not child labour.
Clarkson bought and "ran" a farm for a year and he still doesn't know what he eats
I've said before that people should be drafted to work essential jobs for a year or two when they're 18.
I work as a cashier and you can always tell whether someone as been on the worker's side of the till
the children yearn for the farms
Send the TV hosts to the countryside
Yes, and let's drill holes in our heads to let out the bad blood since we're somehow receding back to the dark ages
Down to the countryside but for Eton. Actually I have absolutely no problem with this.
Down to the countryside for all children who attend “grammar school” or “Latin school”
My problem is that the hard working and underpaid agricultural workers who will have to work alongside these kids did nothing wrong and do not deserve to be exposed to the British upper class.
Amnesty International and the UN air dropping ear plugs for the British proletariat so they don't have to suffer hearing words from some upper class Brit speaking Receives Pronunciation
all kids should have to learn a trade that involves manual labor, so they always have a way to support themselves as adults and know there are more fulfilling alternatives to office chattel slavery
I wish they made me work on a farm. That's be cool af
My father loves his shitty farming show, and it's so baaaaaaad. I can't stand watching this asshole try and do anything. God I miss top gear, too bad James May turned out to be a racist piece of shit himself. All of the fun "dudes rock" type stuff only for it all to go down the drain :sadness:
Edit: Jestem debilem :kitty-cri-screm:
James May
Wait what? Oh crap he was the only one of the three I tolerated, and I liked his solo shows.
Here's an even better idea. How about politicians working on farms.
