Comment on it's a matter of motivation
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks agoIf 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 2 weeks ago
The problem with labour hours is that it doesn’t compensate for more (or less) hard or unpleasant work.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
That’s fine if you believe that. I don’t really believe that we need money, but as long as the means of production remain socialized, private profit remains impossible, and all unjustifiable heirarchies are dismantled, there’s a solid basis for a functioning anarchist society.