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The paycheck mentality. It depresses economic output and productivity across the board by keeping people unengaged and dependent.
by datavirtue 2y ago
The paycheck mentality. It depresses economic output and productivity across the board by keeping people unengaged and dependent.
- Eisenstein 2y agoI don't think that 'everyone an entrepreneur' would increase economic output and productivity, and the fact is that some people just want a paycheck because they don't really care about making more money than the paycheck gives them, and the work is fine.
- Waterluvian 2y agoIndeed. I love that my career is a minor sideshow of my life. I love the stability of working about 40 hours a week and then doing what I really want to be doing with life. It’s a bonus that those 40 hours don’t feel like work.
- detourdog 2y agoIn old world Egypt they kept the creative class in a seperate village. I believe this was needed to keep group harmony and focus.
- fragmede 2y agowas the separate village to keep the creatives in by themselves, or to keep them away from everybody else.
- webnrrd2k 2y agoCan't it be both?
- detourdog 2y agoThey had a god of "Art & Design" Ptah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah I imagine that the creative class was revered and feared. Potters had very low status making a commodity product that everyone needed. Hard to say what was going on.
- BurningFrog 2y agoYou're right, but there is much more to life than maximizing economic output and productivity :)