Like, I get there's OH&S, and insurance, and confidentiality, and training, and consistency, and security, and so on and so forth,
but I wish I could just go down to a place, and be a useful dogsbody for a few hours a week, whenever I pleased, and be paid for it, without all the problems of having to always do it to survive. I live on an extremely stable, but extremely limited income that, so long as I budget well, I don't have to work. The price was no majority control over my executive function, making any kind of regular work nearly impossible.
Literally all I need (and in most cases all I can spare to do) is a couple hours of something paid, even per fortnight, to be extremely comfortable. And I'd even take a lower wage if the stresses of the Employment Process were expressly absent.
But the requirements are almost entirely against capitalism's mechanisms, in that the point is that it's not stressful, required-to-survive work - like I just wanna be a second set of hands for a couple hours, or a PA, or help with yard-work, or like clean and sweep up - nothing critical, but helping out. I'd happily take (Aust. adult award rate) minimum wage, a couple days a week, makes almost three quarters of a grand a fortnight, where I'm almost directly trading labour for specific, achievable goals in my life (since like 90% of the things I wanna do are within that like $1k-3k range, which is, what, two months of 2-day weeks? Pssh), and that's huge motivation. And when I don't want to (or literally can't), there's no penalty or sacrifice for not going in.
I feel like, if I voluntarily went down to a place and said 'hey, I'll help out for up to the length of the workday if you pay me minwage by the hr', I'd do some good, high energy work in that day, rather than being a ground-up husk every day of the week.
