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>Why this pressing need to maximize productivity? Cynical answer: Because the person paying for your time would like the maximum return from that investment, a
by FooHentai 9y ago
>Why this pressing need to maximize productivity?
Cynical answer: Because the person paying for your time would like the maximum return from that investment, and the need for human agency requires that we rationalize that pressure as something that originates within ourselves.
- StavrosK 9y agoAnd the person selling their time (me) would like maximum compensation for that investment, so the employer should commensurately strive to always increase my pay. That logic doesn't quite work that way.
- FooHentai 9y agoTrue, because the balance of power doesn't favour it. In a situation where employees have the balance of power, it does produce great pressure to raise pay, and you do also then see the same rationalization from the employer that it's because their employees are so great and that they're so generous. But reality is the market pressure drove it, not those things.