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| writing:solarpunk_work [2026/05/09 12:44] – [What Work Will Get Done?] JacobCoffinWrites | writing:solarpunk_work [2026/05/09 12:44] (current) – [What Work Will Get Done?] JacobCoffinWrites |
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| There's also a tremendous amount of work which should be done today, -- especially in environmentalism -- that just //isn't// done because it's not profitable or else it relies mainly on students, or other volunteers. Detecting industrial contamination, tracking and removing invasive species, work like this could easily qualify as a full-time solarpunk calling. | There's also a tremendous amount of work which should be done today, -- especially in environmentalism -- that just //isn't// done because it's not profitable or else it relies mainly on students, or other volunteers. Detecting industrial contamination, tracking and removing invasive species, work like this could easily qualify as a full-time solarpunk calling. |
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| | | A Note on Compensation | | | | A Note on Compensation | |
| | | "Compensation" as I'm using it here can be a pretty broad category. | | | Compensation as I'm using it here can be a pretty broad category. Money or the luxuries it would buy are perhaps the default to our way of thinking today. Commerce, indepent of capitalism is fine for many settings and can make for an easier understanding by the audience. If your setting is thoroughly post-scarcity, tokens of community acclaim are an interesting option. The book Murder in the Tool Library had a sort of augmented reality cyberspace overlay which most characters saw - and which was used to provide creative modifications/decorations to award people who made important contributions to their communities through their work. | |
| Money or the luxuries it would buy are perhaps the default to our way of thinking today. Commerce, indepent of capitalism is fine for many settings and can make for an easier understanding by the audience. | |
| If your setting is thoroughly post-scarcity, and doesn't use money, tokens of community acclaim are an interesting option. The book Murder in the Tool Library had a sort of augmented reality cyberspace overlay which most characters saw - and which was used to provide creative modifications/decorations to award people who made important contributions to their communities through their work. | | |
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