>from each according to ability, to each according to need I was born and live in a post-soviet country. Born exactly when the communist regime (supposedly) fe

>from each according to ability, to each according to need I was born and live in a post-soviet country. Born exactly when the communist regime (supposedly) fell. I know this slogan very well. The problem with it is that when everyone is a principal, noone is a principal. It's not about economic development, but philosophical one. People (and all of nature) is in constant movement. From trees spreading seeds, to endorphins in the human brain when you achieve success. If you remove this reward system from the social framework people just stop caring. If you don't have a carrot to chase, you stop walking. You see this very clearly when you manage people in any capacity. What you are left with then, is a very, very small group of people involved in making the decisions, contrary to any syndicalism thought. Soon those few people get intoxicated by the power and corruption, in all its forms, erodes the whole system. Slowly, but painfully. When you make policy, you have to be very careful and cautious. It's one thing to have horizontal structure in Valve and 37signals, where pre-selection means you already are in the top 1% of speciments. Thinking you can translate that success to the other 99% of the population is naive and vain. Vanity is certainly devil's most favorite sin.