Edit: tell me this doesn’t sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn’t want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can’t do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can’t do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

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This is categorically untrue. Jobs exist because one person can’t do all the jobs.

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1 person doesn’t want to clean toilets; but 50 other people are okay with it.

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If all 50 people want to clean 1 toilet, 49 people are shit out of luck

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They can just work together and use very small brushes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Perhaps but someone’s going to have to clean that toilet one way or the other.

The primary issue here is that there is a societal disparity between the toilet cleaner and let’s say a CEO or a doctor or something along those lines. But there shouldn’t be the doctor/ceo and toilet cleaner should get paid the same or there abouts in any case.

Cleaning a toilet should be just as important as heart surgery or running a multinational business.

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There isn’t one person tho.

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If you have the owner of the business he can only perform so many tasks at once therefore that person must hire other people to perform more tasks.

Wanting or not wanting has nothing to do with performing jobs.

If there are jobs that people don’t want to do therefore there must be jobs that people do want to do… What about those people? How do they fit in with your paradigm?

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If someone wanted to do it why pay them? Why even call it a job?

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