Funnily enough, out of all the delusional people under that thread, he probably has the most realistic job.
My brain is a shortcut finding machine. I’d be doing the shitty jobs while trying to figure out ways to do them easier/more efficiently.
In my off time I’d be a tinkerer and a storyteller.
Automation and process improvenent are key skills. The less time spent staying alive, the more time living
in my off time
Nonsense comrade! The quotas must be met!
SnowballGoldsteinthe Capitalists have destroyed our grain storage and you must work to replenish it!
I can fix/make electronics. Don’t know how useful that is in a commune that probably doesn’t have a lot of electronics. I guess I can keep the latte machine maintained and working.
Communist =! Luddites. Just because they’re choosing to live in a different social structure does not remove them from modern technology. You’d still be useful, up-skill to basic power systems to keep the lights on and you’d be golden.
You missed the joke. The joke was that the leftist commune only has to maintain their latte machine because there’s nothing else to do
As a software engineer, skills I think I could contribute are systems design, debuging, writing software, and also trash pickup on the back af the truck. I’d be happy to help build software tools that help people actually enjoy life, and also I eon’t mind pitching in to my community.
Why would a commune not have electronics? I think they would.
Gonna be a large commune to have mines, refineries and chip plants to make the PCBs.
Like what, 50k residents to start?
Man, homesteading sure has evolved!
I dunno, I guess when I hear “commune”, I’m thinking some makeshift grass-eating hippie village. Not a modern community.
I’m pretty good at repairing the means of production, so not to different here
No that’s very useful.
Ah, the lure of power.
i’d be a math teacher. hopefully in the commune i’d be able to avoid the rigidity and tedium of the regular math curriculum, instead being able to focus on the fun stuff and foster people’s curiosity.
Interesting! Everyone loves professors who can make usually dry subjects fun, what are some fun math stuff?
at the higher levels you start to see all kinds of crazy stuff, here are some examples:
- mathematicians abstracted the idea of measure and then found out not everything can be measured
- we know there are different sizes of infinity, and we know what the “smallest” infinity is, but it’s impossible to “know” (ie prove in ZFC) what the “second smallest size of” infinity is
- we took the regular number line and made it longer just to see what would happen
- The Hairy Ball Theorem, which says “you can’t comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick” (quote from source)
but as with any discipline, a big part of how much fun it is to learn has to do with how it’s taught. i think it’s possible to teach middle school/high school geometry in a way that makes it fun and engaging, but it’s often not taught in this way. there’s a great article/paper that talks about this. it’s written to be very readable and accessible, although it is a bit long (but you can get the basic idea in the first 5-7 pages). he talks about how terribly math is taught in school and how it’s no wonder so many people hate it as a result.
he also talks about how learning math could be much more fun if it was taught differently. he gives a really great example of this when he discusses something as simple as the formula for the area of a triangle (on the bottom of page 3 to the end of page 4). i tried to summarize it for this post, but i don’t think a summary would do it justice, so i strongly encourage you to read it if you’re interested.
but as with any discipline, a big part of how much fun it is to learn has to do with how it’s taught.
I teach (technically still in college, but true enough) basically the opposite of you, history, and this is very true. You can make history lessons fun and engaging and challenging, but it’s also very easy to make them boring. Unfortunately, as you are also aware of, it’s difficult to make these interesting lessons with the constraints of time (of which administrative bullshit takes up a lot), class sizes and government-mandated curriculums and tests.
Last year I had my internship at a pretty shitty school with abysmal guidance and support which meant I was teaching all on my own even though I shouldn’t have been allowed to, and basically no curriculum. That sucked, but it also meant I had basically total freedom in what and how I taught, and the classes were 12 students maximum. I pretty much only did engaging and fun lessons for 4 months straight.
It always pains me how prevalent education systems hinder curiosity and our natural love to learn.
I can write software well enough that my bullshitting skills will bridge the gap to convincing the powers that be that I’m useful.
Personally ? Guerilla warfare insurgent.
I’m not sure i have much value to a commune.
Nonsense! You can work as a miner or factory worker! If you aren’t as physically capable, you can always be bureaucrat who records who exactly believes reading tarot cards is labor!
Wait a minute, I’ve seen this one!
Do whatever fulfills your wants and needs and you’re already doing good.
I’ll be the musician - it seemed to go OK for Shostakovich
It would be cool to spend some of my time gardening and landscaping to make the community look better. Having greenery around me and seeing public spaces that look cared for and lived in always puts me in a better mood. For that matter, we could bring back some of the skilled decorative trades and start embellishing buildings with stone and wood carving, tile work, tapestries, rugs, relief sculptures, and stuff like that. Maybe we could develop some new aesthetics instead of copying ostentatious old buildings. I just like when you can tell someone put attention and time into a building, and it’s not all disposable prefab that will get torn down in twenty years.
Hot take but I also dig creative brutalist buildings like Boston City Hall and the Boston Government Services Building. I just like how permanent it looks, like cold war architects were reminding people to think of the future. But I’m probably in the minority.
Heck yeah! I lived in a city with a bunch of architecture like that, always hear people saying how ugly it is, but I love it so much. Nice to meet another fan.
Cool link! Yeah I dig this stuff. It sucks that so often Brutalist buildings seem unloved. It’s a shame to see weeds growing on a beautiful monument like that. And Tallinn tower looks rad, this is the first time I’ve seen it.
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Oh plenty of things. I could teach, do some manual labor, be a peace keeper (a real one, not a pig), assist with legal matters. Hell would love to do a day of each one a week.
I don’t know, construction maybe
Hey awesome, I want to do deconstruction, we can work together!
Together we’re a perpetual 'struction machine!
What’s your job on the leftist commune?
Violating civil rights.
So police. Got it.
*secret police. Or maybe just police. Depends on the ruler.
Do y’all need a shuttle bus? I feel like a commune would need a shuttle bus. (Feel free to add a leftist name)
Absolutely, and I’ll do it with you.
Game developer. I’m one now and I have 10 years of experience making great games. It’s highly competitive but I could see myself getting it.
If I couldn’t be one I’d them be a math teacher and apply game development to make algebra fun and interesting.
These trenches aren’t going to dig themselves. Maybe you could do half a day’s manual labour in the mornings, then the desk-based work in the afternoon?
