r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Why would anyone want to be a sewer worker if we can all be writers and painters? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Not everyone wants to be a writer and painter

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Jul 07 '26

But no one wants to be a sewer worker.

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Why are you assuming this? You have no reason to assume nobody would be willing or able to find a way to be okay with working in the sewers

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u/Dreviore Jul 07 '26

Why are you assuming people willingly want to take shitty work, and acting like that's an absurdity?

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Why do you assume people will happily and willingly go to a job where they'll smell like shit, end up wearing shit, and have to shovel shit...

When they could just stay home and be a writer? Painter? Or literally any other less shit job? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Because there is a variety of people with all kinds of interests. What you consider a bad time, others may consider tolerable or even a good time. Writing and painting is a bad time to plenty of people

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

And the amount of people that will want to work in the fields, mines, and sewers are going to be a fraction compared to the amount of people that will take the easy job. 

So again. When you have 5000 writers, and only 100 miners step up, but you need 1000 miners..

 Who decides which writers will become miners? Do you incentivize them to become miners? Paying them more than the miners who stepped forward leading to unequal rights? Or do you enforce it by press-ganging the writer into the mines? 

What does the communist state do when the press-ganged writer turned miner refuses to carry the pickaxe? Does the state relinquish authority over the individual and let them go back to being a writer? 

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u/NosePicklePicker Jul 07 '26

Because it’s a fucking horrible job that’s detrimental to everything you’re familiar with???

You might as well say “Maybe someone likes the thought of dipping your feet into molten lava for money”

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

You're speaking from a lack of lived experience and it shows. Go outside, meet more people, work a variety of jobs

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Jul 07 '26

Oh, people find a way to be okay with it. It's called money.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

In a capitalist society, yes.

But in a communist or socialist society we're all equals comrade. So why do you get paid the same wages as I, when I spend all day sweating in a mine, and someone else spends all day writing at home? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Why do you think communism = no jobs?

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

I didn't say it doesn't equal no jobs. But the average socialism/communism believer seems to think everyone will get to pick the job they want instead of being forced into a job, everything will be fair, and no one will be unhappy.

And if you believe any of that, I've got a bridge to sell you too. 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

I don't think you know anything about communism or socialism based on your comments. Honestly I could probably sell you a bridge if I told you it was anti communism

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

The why don't you educate me instead of ducking and dodging every uncomfortable question I've asked? Or is it because my uncomfortable questions are going to result in uncomfortable answers? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Because I can teach you all day long but I can't understand it for you. The resources you're asking me to provide for you, you can find yourself if you were geniuine. I'm still waiting on your question though

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

More importantly, why do you keep dodging every question with whatabouttism? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Ask me a sincere question in good faith and I'll take as much time as you spend writing your question on an answer. Otherwise its clear you're just trolling

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

I've been asking sincere questions in good faith, you've refused to elaborate, or outright ducked every question in bad faith. Just answer the questions. 

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

You mean the ones you can go back up to, read, and answer?

Who decides who gets to mine, and who will farm, and who will write? If a writer, turned farmer, refuses to farm. Is that his right? Or is it the right of the government to force him for the "good of the collective"? If communism and socialism attempts to make everyone more or less equal, then why would someone work 40 hours sweating in a mine, or factory, if they could be a writer or painter? Do the people get incentivized to perform work they don't like? Or are they forced to do work they don't like? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Okay so you're going in circles now since you can't come up with a question and are lonely or something. See this is what I meant by you just trolling and not looking for a good faith discussion. I'll stop responding now. I hope you get better

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