Comment on it's a matter of motivation
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month agoNo, never even implied that. But in any system we need something that can be exchanged for labor in carrying quantities so we can give more to the people who do the shittiest jobs. Whatever system you come up with, it’s not going to work without money.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 month ago
If a medium of exchange for labor is indeed necessary, I’d say it should be measured in labor hours. We live finite lives, measured in minutes. A minute of your life is worth as much as a minute of mine, wouldn’t you say?
I would have no inherent problem with a system that tokenizes labor hours in some way. The problem is private ownership of the means of production and profit itself.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The problem with labour hours is that it doesn’t compensate for more (or less) hard or unpleasant work.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 month ago
Yes, that’s true, I suppose a time-and-a-half system or similar could be used for dangerous or unpleasant work. Good point!
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Untill you realize that there are a lot of kinds of work and solutions them into three groups is nooit fair to a lot of them either. You can keep cutting it up in smaller equivalents, but in the end what you’ll have is basically money.