bjlong, Cuba may not be an economic power but it's clearly the least poor and most well educated state of South America.
And I said: Undesirable tasks should be shared communally. This also encourages innovations.
And no, the surgeon should not be awarded more.
Doing a job because it's got higher salary is a capitalist syndrome. In Communism, people are doing jobs because they enjoy them.
In Cuba, doctors are not well-paid. They've got a low salary, in fact. Still, Cuba's patients per doctor ratio considerably lower than the USA's, even if they are not well-paid.
I did a bit of research, and it seems that Cuba has had a long history of good health services. In fact, most of its health services were much better before the revolution, save for rural areas. When the revolution rolled around, around half of Cuba's medical staff... exported themselves. While it's still better than America today, the number of health care professionals is declining, as they either find different countries, or want to work in the tourism industry for much better pay (50-60 times more!). This despite the fact that they get 1.5 times the national mean. This is particularly troubling to me, as island nations typically don't have a good industry other than sugar cane and tourism, so sabotaging their medical system for idealistic reasons is somewhat... well, not nearly even close to acceptable.
Also, Cuba's economic successes were fueled in part by donations from the USSR. After its collapse, Cuba had to open up the private sector more. In fact, quite a lot more. And employment in the private sector is growing. Basically, Cuba's following the trend of most communistic countries--failing economies means that it opens up the private sector, but it's not enough, so the country has to open up the private sector a bit more, but it's still not enough...
Despite obvious mockery:
In capitalism, you can work and not have enough to nourish yourselves and support your family. It's not quite as bad in the USA but such behaviour is widespread in other countries. It's essentially a product of capitalism.
(...) People have been working themselves to death and dying because they don't have enough since there were people to work themselves to death.
Cthulhu.
You forget.
This isn't Communism. It's COMMUNISM!
fenrif, what have I said earlier? Undesirable tasks are split up communally because it is, in your example literally, everybody's shit. And again, somebody ingenious having to do shit work leads to innovations, like self-cleaning toilets.
Also, there are obviously people who enjoy working with the criminally insane, because there are people doing the job.
Sewage systems are incredibly complex. They are, in fact, the number one problem with cities. The growth limiter. The density limiter. And so on. Usually, sewage workers get paid quite well for their services, and work closely with Civil Engineers. Even a small problem needs to be detected immediately and fixed even more immediately. Sewage systems are truly serious business.
I find it interesting that you're talking about self-cleaning and self-maintaining facilities. The reason we haven't come up with these isn't for lack of motivation. They're just incredibly hard to get right. In fact, it's practically impossible, because then you have to maintain the maintaining mechanisms, and then maintain those maintaining mechanisms... etc.
Also. People can work jobs they don't like. I've seen quite a few people doing that in my lifetime.
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