Just cause you can do it yourself doesn't mean it's unnecessary.
Why doesn't the average person do their own electricals? Why do I get payed to do it for them, even though they could just learn to do it themselves.
Or maybe cleaning is just the only thing someone's good at, and there's no other way for them to contribute to society. Should they just be fired from the only job they need or can actually hold, even though no-one else wants to do it anyways?
"Just cause you can do it yourself doesn't mean it's unnecessary."
It pretty much means exactly that.
"Why doesn't the average person do their own electricals?"
Because they presumably don't have the skills to perform that job.
"Why do I get payed to do it for them, even though they could just learn to do it themselves." Because learning to do that would cost a significant amount of time and money that they are likely using on something else. You're trying to compare menial labor to skilled labor. That doesn't work.
"Should they just be fired from the only job they need or can actually hold, even though no-one else wants to do it anyways?"
No, but in this scenario there are people who want to do the job. (as much as the kids would actually *want* to clean the school)
Also every Wednesday residents in their neighbor hoods will go out and pick up trash near their areas. They clean up the streets and throw lingering trash all before they head out to work. I was amazed when I saw this while I was visiting Japan.
Really like which ones, cause I was fascinated by this. In the U.S trash is picked up twice a week but by the city waste disposal. Also you do see people picking up trash on the roads they are either employed by the city government or they are doing community service. In other words, they are employed by taxpayers. These people I saw picking up trash in Japan were just ordinary citizens doing it to keep it clean. They also have their usual garbage men but they still got together as a neighbor hood and picked up trash.
I studied at both, a private school and a public school when I lived in my country. For the public school, the teachers would divide the classroom and divide it into groups of 4 or 5 (depending the size of the class), and assign those groups the day and the week (Week A, B, and sometimes even C if the class was large enough (or as punishment)) to clean the place. The schedules were usually delivered within the first week of classes.
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For the private one, the teachers would divide the board into Week 1 and Week 2, and write the days of the weeks there (From monday to saturday... yep, I had classes on saturday), and they would let the students pick what day they wanted, once one day reached the "maximum" we could no longer pick it, so had to choose some other day. Normally, it only was 4 people, they said if we got a larger group, then we'll do nothing and slack off.
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They did hire custodians, but it was mostly to "guard" the school after school hours.
Wellness wasn't specific so for some reason I thought he mentioned the latter. Oh yeah other countries do this I'm aware of but the trash picking on the middle of the road was unique to me.
in the philippines we split the class up into 5 groups. One for Monday, another for Tuesday and so on...you clean on the day you're classified to. There were custodians but for the restrooms and the corridors and other places.
In The Netherlands we do that too. On most schools. The students have to clean up their classroom or the place where they have lunch. Not every day though, every day it's other students 'turn'.
Why doesn't the average person do their own electricals? Why do I get payed to do it for them, even though they could just learn to do it themselves.
Or maybe cleaning is just the only thing someone's good at, and there's no other way for them to contribute to society. Should they just be fired from the only job they need or can actually hold, even though no-one else wants to do it anyways?
It pretty much means exactly that.
"Why doesn't the average person do their own electricals?"
Because they presumably don't have the skills to perform that job.
"Why do I get payed to do it for them, even though they could just learn to do it themselves." Because learning to do that would cost a significant amount of time and money that they are likely using on something else. You're trying to compare menial labor to skilled labor. That doesn't work.
"Should they just be fired from the only job they need or can actually hold, even though no-one else wants to do it anyways?"
No, but in this scenario there are people who want to do the job. (as much as the kids would actually *want* to clean the school)
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For the private one, the teachers would divide the board into Week 1 and Week 2, and write the days of the weeks there (From monday to saturday... yep, I had classes on saturday), and they would let the students pick what day they wanted, once one day reached the "maximum" we could no longer pick it, so had to choose some other day. Normally, it only was 4 people, they said if we got a larger group, then we'll do nothing and slack off.
.
They did hire custodians, but it was mostly to "guard" the school after school hours.