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Even if we presuppose that everyone working could choose not to work at all, I think your scenario is overly idealistic. What your scenario changes is that the
by finnthehuman 6y ago
Even if we presuppose that everyone working could choose not to work at all, I think your scenario is overly idealistic.
What your scenario changes is that the labor supply gets to be much more selective about the job they take. Supply and demand still exist. Moderating facebook is still a low skill desk job. The pay and benefit floor may be raised across the board, but I don't see what the market force would separate moderating facebook from the other jobs with comparable pay today.
Sure, you could quit a job moderating facebook and not have to worry about keeping yourself solvent. But the same goes for every other job. What would separate them from the jobs that they're on the same level with today?
- crumbshot 6y ago> What your scenario changes is that the labor supply gets to be much more selective about the job they take. Indeed, that's the point: to move away from the current system of the wealthy coercing and exploiting the not-wealthy.
- throwaway2245 6y ago> What would separate them from the jobs that they're on the same level with today? I'm imagining jobs with (for example) a high emotional toll, disgust factor, risk factor. I believe those aspects are presently undervalued (described above as jobs which "anyone can do"), so I imagine there would be a reassessment of how those tasks are valued. They would likely require relatively higher pay before people were willing to do them. Jobs with generally poor working conditions, or a high degree of managerial control and low autonomy, could be re-factored into jobs with better working conditions, as people are more able to be selective on that basis.
- intended 6y agoPTSD?