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> Who is going to scrub the toilets and change adult diapers in the meantime? Read B. F. Skinner's "Walden Two" for some ideas how to handle this. For example,
by jcynix 3y ago
> Who is going to scrub the toilets and change adult diapers in the meantime?
Read B. F. Skinner's "Walden Two" for some ideas how to handle this. For example, a society could dynamically / periodically adjust revenues for jobs less preferred and lower revenues for jobs most liked.
That is, if you get enough "perks" for one day oft scrubbing toilets and then four days off, someone might prefer this over five days of toiling in a bank? ;-0
- lotsofpulp 3y agoSounds like paying money in exchange for products/services in an economy with universal basic incomes with exponential taxation of wealth to prevent income/wealth gap from becoming so wide such that no one can permanently launch themselves or their kind from ever doing that kind of work.
- prometheus76 3y agoIsn't that what we already have? Wages are just another form of price. An auction between a buyer and a seller...
- ekanes 3y agoI think we saw a version of this unfold during COVID, when many people didn't want to do some forms of labor any more. The (somewhat) successful resonse was to raise wages.