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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Actually I don't think it's that terrible for an idea, as long as things like food and accommodations are provided, and you can't get out of it by paying (e.g. pay someone to do it for you).

I'd like to see billionaires doing hard labor alongside ordinary people.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If we're doing it, we gotta add in a rotation of frontline retail/restaurant work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    How about we just add it to curriculum for school. During general highschool educational, you must take at least one Public Service class per year. You can choose from farming, retail, plumbing, electrician, road crew, et cetera. Each kid has to do a certain number of hour per school year, and it's required even if private school kids. Disability would obviously be an exception, but otherwise you need to be doing at least X number of hours per school year to graduate. Could help people understand how these things work, and hopefully build some empathy in the little sociopaths.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Community service, unpaid labor was part of the Bright Futures scholarships here (they changed it to paid or unpaid work) and was part of the IB curriculum two of mine did too. This is likely true in most states. A lot of high school kids are already doing hours and hours of unpaid community service.

    But there is only one real farm inside what I'd define as close enough, an organic community farm that already uses lots of volunteers and unpaid interns and still ends up too expensive for what we got, when we tried buying a share one year. They are not raking in cash at all, either. It just is an expensive endeavor.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I would agree with it if it was working on publicly owned farms. I don’t support any kind of “drafted” labor that ultimately benefits private owners, or even a system where the government reaps the profits. If people are made to work in any fashion, every cent of value generated should go back to them.

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