If we shouldn't expect people to be compensated, then why even bring up a dollar amount in the first place? Are you justifying enslaving people in order to "make it work"?
Did chattel slaves have democratic consensus mechanism where they agreed to do the work?
How do you "make it work" without someone agreeing to do the work?
I think it would be funded through dollars but it could also be done by barter in items/services valued in dollars.
"planet Earth doesn't care" - The printed money will end up in retirement and transfer funds. Put another way if San Francisco can't even control the human feces, homeless and needle problem - how on earth can liberals control something complex like CO2 through non market legislative means?