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The collectivist dream: outsource innovation to a system that rewards owners with profits, then pretend like someone would invent the next Uber even if there's
by pdog 9y ago
The collectivist dream: outsource innovation to a system that rewards owners with profits, then pretend like someone would invent the next Uber even if there's no incentive.
- cardamomo 9y agoI think you're thinking narrowly about the term "incentive." Incentives can be non-monetary as well. Consider the opportunity to work with increased autonomy, or a chance to move your industry -- and perhaps society at large -- away from hierarchical power structures that disadvantage and disenfranchise workers. Focusing solely on the monetary side of this disregards the many other ways in which people find meaning in their lives.