tikkunolamorgtfo:nothorses:deadpoolsbottombitch:dancinbutterfly:tsarinajissa:thefortysecond: great-t
tikkunolamorgtfo:nothorses:deadpoolsbottombitch:dancinbutterfly:tsarinajissa:thefortysecond: great-tweets:Sigh. Important update! His story went viral enough that other paint companies reached out to him and he got a job with a new paint company!!https://www.tiktok.com/@tonesterpaints/video/6898720259675540742 Athens TikToker Tony Piloseno accepts job and partnership with Florida paint company following rush of public support Listen. This is what people are talking about when they say that if you gave people a fucking UBI, folks would still work. Even “menial” work is beloved by various people if it’s given the respect it deserves and folks dont need to worry about - um - starving to death and dying of illness? I legitimately love delivering pizzas! If it were sustainable i wouldn’t mind at all doing it for the rest of my life! One of my best friends absolutely loves cleaning, and the only reason she quit cleaning professionally is that she was sick of the ways she was treated. My stepfather has been a carpenter and construction worker for 30 years, despite being a highly qualified graphic designer and architect, bc the man just fuckin loves construction work. For every “menial/undesireable” job available, there is someone who is happy to work it, if not for the stigma and need to survive. And for the truly awful ones? Like slaughterhouse cleanup, sewer maintenance, roadkill pickup, etc? With UBI they could almost all be mechanized, saving people from having to do grueling and dangerous jobs they really don’t have to do. I work at a summer camp where the common refrain is “we definitely don’t do this for the money.” A lot of jobs are unpleasant and menial to most folks, and people still apply for them because they like the work environment, the coworkers, or just the job itself. Other work is divided among the rest of staff to do together (litter pickup, end of session cleaning, cleaning outhouses, etc.), and even the truly difficult, truly unpleasant work is if not actively enjoyed, then done anyway because we do it together, we like who we’re doing it with and for, we see the value of the work, and if nobody else does it, what then? If we don’t pick horse poop from the pasture in 90 degree weather directly under the sun, who’s gonna get it done? If we don’t clean up the urine-soaked sleeping bags, who will?We have to do it not because of a paycheck, but because the work has a direct impact that matters. We care about it. We don’t have to enjoy the work to know it’s worth doing. This is a microcosm, and it’s not representative of everyone in every situation- plus, y'know, we do still have staff members who just refuse to do some of the work. But a bunch of privileged middle-class college students who could probably find another job if they wanted to, would definitely get paid more for it, and would likely just stay home and not work if it really came down to it- that’s about as close as you can get to UBI without actually having UBI. Improve the working conditions, improve the work environment, make the work meaningful, and folks will be willing to do even the stuff nobody wants to do. Totally agree about the UBI. Back to the guy in the original article, though, the new company didn’t just hire him, they partnered with him to give him his own paint line! -- source link