Post Apocalyptic Society Guide: Jobs Need To Get Done

Rebuilding society from near-scratch is going to be a tough job. More accurately, it's going to be a combination of many tough, dirty jobs that someone has to do. What's more, at least at first, they'll have to be done low-tech, for the most part.

While you're working on getting plumbing up and running, someone will have to dig a latrine, build an outhouse, and drive a dunny-wagon to get that stuff out of town and, hopefully, to fertilizer for a farm. And, that's just for example.

So, your challenge will be to get jobs done, particularly traditionally low-status jobs. In the formation of law, Lawyers will come in because the value and the status of that job is obvious. Doctors, both legitimately educated and otherwise, will come forward due to how readily our society will reward that profession. Getting people with the training will be the tough part, constructing society so that they are rewarded and motivated will be the easy part.

The low-status, but essential jobs will be the difficult part. Part of the reason for the difficulty will be that you don't have the current, pre-apocalypse method of motivating people to do those jobs, payment with money.
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