Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[OngBonga]

You'll find there are certain areas, especially those requiring creative solutions, that money incentives have shown to have a detrimental effect on.

Probably. There's also plenty of people who aren't motivated by money. I think we have to look at this in general terms.

[Savy]

Probably. There's also plenty of people who aren't motivated by money. I think we have to look at this in general terms.

The thing with capitalism, and if anyone disagrees please do say, is that the idea is to put a value on things which currently we are so far away from actually being able to do that the idea gets ignored and we talk about money. Incentives are a great thing but they have to be relevant, for example job security has an incredible value that people don't really value correct and a lot of people are very falsely under the impression that their job is much safer than it really is. Anyway a better point is that personal development in your role is an absolutely huge incentive & for a lot of things vastly superior to money incentives whilst also leading to some of the other qualities mentioned such as self-respect. Those should all be accounted for in a real economic system but obviously doing so is hard whereas saying £5 > £4 therefore incentive is too simplistic and as a result when applied across the board it's wrong.

[wufwugy]

The thing with capitalism, and if anyone disagrees please do say, is that the idea is to put a value on things which currently we are so far away from actually being able to do that the idea gets ignored and we talk about money. Incentives are a great thing but they have to be relevant, for example job security has an incredible value that people don't really value correct and a lot of people are very falsely under the impression that their job is much safer than it really is. Anyway a better point is that personal development in your role is an absolutely huge incentive & for a lot of things vastly superior to money incentives whilst also leading to some of the other qualities mentioned such as self-respect. Those should all be accounted for in a real economic system but obviously doing so is hard whereas saying £5 > £4 therefore incentive is too simplistic and as a result when applied across the board it's wrong.

You're definitely thinking like an economist.

[CoccoBill]

You're definitely thinking like an economist.

Isn't the economist thinking more the opposite, that is, ignoring all those pesky externalities and just using money as the only metric? :P

[wufwugy]

Isn't the economist thinking more the opposite, that is, ignoring all those pesky externalities and just using money as the only metric? :P

Externality in terms of money. Asploded head.

[CoccoBill]

Externality in terms of money. Asploded head.

I have no idea what you're saying.