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Who runs the power stations?
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Whoever in the community chooses to do that specific job. It would be a large group of people though, so as to ensure that hours are fairly minimal and productivity is optimized.
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Do they get paid for that service?
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As much as everyone else does.
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And how would 'pay' work?
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Equal allocation of resources within the community, where the community as a whole decides how much people need and what items. Pay doesn't change, because that breeds inequality.
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A currency or trade, but in either case it would have to be decided how much a service or good is worth? Or do they just charge what they want and the price gets balanced out by the fact people won't pay if it's too high.
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This is Anarcho-capitalism you're talking about. Anarcho-capitalism is a crock of shit and is generally shunned. Anarchism tends to not have capitalism.
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How do they pay for fuel for the power station if it's from another community?
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Syndication. It wouldn't 'cost' per se, there's two answers to this:
1. A community gives from the goodness of its heart. Possible, unlikely.
2. You trade, give them something they need in return.
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And a fire service, while a joint effort by the general population might be fine to fight a small house fire in a village, a city would need a trained team to deal with large or more exotic fires, do those guys get compensated for the training time?
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The education systems in Anarchism depend solely on the communities and their decisions, however I would say that if taught properly, training time really shouldn't be that long and everyone should be encouraged to train in as many subjects as possible. Create jacks-of-all-trades before branching into specialism and you cut the training times of every job. Communities would ideally be in tandem with each other, so the fire services from each community would form a greater one for a fire of epic proportions, common good and all that.
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Essentially, do jobs and the like work in an anarchist society in the same way they do under governments?
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No. Anarchism, to me, entails that workers control production. So it's as different as you can get, really, since there is no dictatorship in production.
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If it's a choice by everyone then they would have to vote on each issue?
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Yup. True democracy.
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Is that really feasible in a city (considering the amount of infrastructure, and the amount of time organising it all when everyone has to decide as a group would take), or does anarchy involve splitting into smaller communities?
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Communities should be as small as possible. In a community of three, one person may walk away disappointed if there really is no happy medium. The further up you get in terms of population, the more people end up disappointed.