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Of course. But the paycheck encourages you to do work that benefits others (or otherwise they wouldn't pay for it, right?). Isn't that a good thing?
by nightski 12y ago
Of course. But the paycheck encourages you to do work that benefits others (or otherwise they wouldn't pay for it, right?). Isn't that a good thing?
- scrollaway 12y agoWork that benefits others does not necessarily pay. Work that pays does not necessarily benefit others. I don't know what world you live in.
- nightski 12y agoI am having a hard time thinking of work where you get paid yet you provide no benefit to the payee? Maybe some further insight is in order (since I am living in another world apparently). I was not speaking in absolutes. Of course there are exceptions. All I was saying is that it provides some incentive... Not only that, but you are applying today's economics to a dramatically different situation in which basic needs are met by machines. I don't think that works.
- sukilot 12y agoBenefiting the payee is not always productive. If I pay you to steal from Paul, that is not net positive work.
- a_c_s 12y agoMany of the jobs that help people out don't scale well, like social workers: they tend to have a high stress, high workload, poorly compensated job. I'm sure there are plenty of people with an interest in helping people out in similar ways that aren't willing to put up with the low pay.
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