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A huge amount of effort in society is wasted in pointless competition simply because people need income. Imagine 2 farmers selling melons, each with 50% market
by Jedi72 8y ago
A huge amount of effort in society is wasted in pointless competition simply because people need income. Imagine 2 farmers selling melons, each with 50% market share. One discovers if she hires a social media marketer she can get to 70% market share. The other farmer now must respond by hiring their own marketing people. These two marketers are both very happy to be employed, but overall we would have been better just giving them free melons and letting them work on something they are truly passionate about.
- montenegrohugo 8y agoI very much like your analogy. Competition has its advantages, but it can oftentimes be a destructive force. The entire marketing/advertising industry is enormous and yet nothing of value is being produced. Instead, apps and platforms feel the need to become ever more addictive and receive ever more of our attention share, just because then they can place more ads in front of our eyeballs. Ads that contribute nothing to society except distract and annoy.
- whatshisface 8y agoThe farmers would still try to hire the markerters even with a UBI, unless you're proposing that the UBI will eliminate the profit motive. It probably won't unless it's so large that it destroys the economy and replaces it with communism.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoMost people aren’t marketers. The most common jobs are waiters, cashiers, retails, food prep, etc. We need those people to do those jobs. Why would they?