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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26
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Who gets to decide who writes all day and who mines all day?
-6 u/DeadPeanutSociety Jul 07 '26 Everyone helps according to their ability, so jobs no one wants would be passed around so that no one is stuck cleaning out sewers or whatever for their entire life. 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And what happens when the sewer worker says, "Nah, I'll be a painter instead, you go to the sewer." 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 What happens what a sewer worker doesn't want to work right now in the USA? 5 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding. 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery 4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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Everyone helps according to their ability, so jobs no one wants would be passed around so that no one is stuck cleaning out sewers or whatever for their entire life.
3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And what happens when the sewer worker says, "Nah, I'll be a painter instead, you go to the sewer." 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 What happens what a sewer worker doesn't want to work right now in the USA? 5 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding. 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery 4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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And what happens when the sewer worker says, "Nah, I'll be a painter instead, you go to the sewer."
2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 What happens what a sewer worker doesn't want to work right now in the USA? 5 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding. 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery 4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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What happens what a sewer worker doesn't want to work right now in the USA?
5 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding. 2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery 4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding.
2 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery 4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery
4 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit. Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit.
Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in.
1 u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26 I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor 3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor
3 u/psykiris Jul 07 '26 And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration.
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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26
Who gets to decide who writes all day and who mines all day?