I would either give medical school a try or I don’t know, I would really like to be involved in re-education, finding ways to de-chudify and de-libify people without bringing them to physical or emotional harm. Just helping people learn would be cool too. But obviously if the workers want me working in a mine, that’s fine with me as well.

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Work in a coal mine.

I hope I don’t end up at the poetry factory :(

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Coal de-mining comrad. We no longer burn fossil fuels.

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Back into the hole it goes

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This. I’d have considered life as a high school teacher but I can’t stand the thought of dealing with parents when I try to cubapill their children.

I do love teaching college though, so or there’s still higher Ed I’d probably keep doing it. Maybe a mix of the two…

If there’s still academic publishing in an ethical manner I might try to publish a paper or two in my spare time, but if compensation were more equitable between teaching and research faculty I feel like I’d be more interested in teaching. I do love both.

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I probably keep farming. People gotta eat, the climate is shifting, with every year I am learning more and more about soil and sustainability. I got a damned job to do. :meow-tankie:

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Be forced into the coal mines.

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…In Minecraft, but only until our server has a dripstone lava cauldron filler. :pika-pickaxe:

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Real talk, I think there are some people so fundamentally traumatized by capitalism that there may have to be huge groups of them just not working or working very, very casually and otherwise not “contributing.” And, like, getting therepy and re-education.

I also think there will be a lot of peoples who will be doing cultural reclamation, climate mitigation projects that would be seen as more negative value. Like dudes whose job it is is to maintain a forest or wetland and coppice trees to bury them down below as a carbon sequestration thing.

Personally, I’d be fine with doing what I’m doing now. Construction and dry wall. I mainly just hate my boss not the actual work.

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This is a real thing. Its the difference between the official “unemployment” numbers and the number of working age people who don’t work. The criteria for “unemployment” are cooked in a specific way to get that value, and a lot of people who potentially could work are excluded.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198

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Interesting, yeah I know labor force participation isn’t 100% but I also think we might see a drop in that rate (if it’s something we’ll even measure for whatever reason) in the decades following revolution. Because I think there will be a lot of otherwise physically healthy adults that really just can’t work, I’d consider them having an official pension due to their involuntary service in the class war and especially when we were losing…

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