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Wow, did you not even think for a second about the consequences? We'd need to decouple work and wages Well what incentive would people have to go to 11 years

Wow, did you not even think for a second about the consequences? We'd need to decouple work and wages Well what incentive would people have to go to 11 years of college then to become a surgeon? What incentive would a start-up founder have to work 80 hour weeks for years on end if there was no chance to get rich off of it? What job would have the most people applying for if no job paid any money? In other words, if salary and job were decoupled, what result would we see? The job which required the least amount of effort. The more difficult or time consuming the job, the less applicants there would be.

HeyLaughingBoy 14y ago
No, it's an interesting idea. People would do what they wanted to do as opposed to what they had to do in order to earn a living. I can look to my wife as an example. She's a horse trainer. She makes very little money (pretty small market for clients to start with), gets injured frequently: sometimes badly, but absolutely loves the work. There are many of us out there who really like what we do and would do it even if we weren't paid, as long as we still had a source of income
flyinRyan 14y ago
>The job which required the least amount of effort. Nor me. I'd be working on programming projects I'm interested in instead of the same lame CRUD apps for big companies.