Under capitalism, a lot of the time, highly dangerous jobs are also highly paid. Kind of a balance that the individual decides to engage with. Same idea behind getting an advanced degree in STEM or law. I think of my job by example, I’m a power plant operator at a large combined cycle plant. No fucking shot I’d be doing this if the pay wasn’t good. I’m around explosive and deadly hot shit all day.
Hospitals and other critical locations have generators, so while blackouts are an inconvenience they rarely cause deaths. They might not be common where you live in part thanks to you, but other parts of the world have blackouts and people are fine. I’m not saying your job is not dangerous or important, but you might be overestimating your importance.
Regardless your job is something that would be considered “essential” on a broader scope, therefore would be highly compensated in any form of communism. During a transitional period it would be highly paid, and if ever money gets abolished it would be recompensated in other ways. On the other hand in capitalism your job is not that highly recompensated, because capitalism pays more for what makes more money regardless of how useful or dangerous it is. For example a quick search tells me that the median salary in the US for your position is 88k, whereas the median salary for a programmer is 133k, and I assure you my job is less dangerous and essential than yours.
That being said, dangerous or undesirable jobs should be automated away, if you think no one would want to be a power plant operator if they could do whatever they want to, then the proper solution is to get rid of the job entirely. No one should be forced to do something they don’t like just so they can pay their bills, we have enough technology to automate at least the dangerous parts of the job, it’s just that under capitalism that money it’s better spent elsewhere because your life is worth approximately 88k per year.
Thats a hilarious way to tell me you have no idea what you’re talking about. Regarding my position, apparently yours or the topic at hand. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner I just went through notifications I’ve been sitting on for months. Hospitals and emergency locations have backup generators, correct. Now tell me how they work and WHO operates and maintains them 24/7… Tell me how Cuba is doing with consistant rolling blackouts, everyone’s fine, right? Where did you get the median 88k number for power plant engineer and where did you get the median salary for programmers being 130k? I promise the former is way low and the latter is way high. I can provide sources if you want. You act like there is a magic wand that can just remove tens/hundreds of millions of jobs because they aren’t people dream jobs. Thats the only way communism could work? It would require automation to a unbelievable degree? By what medium would that automation even be achievable? I also can’t possibly imagine a job like mine being automated before a job like yours.