Comments on: Egalitarianism VS Freedom

By: sitakali

sitakali — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:22:18 +0000

Actually, material reward is quite ineffective compared to intrinsic. I wrote a post a while back that's a good place to start, has lots of links and citations. http://sitakali.org/2011/02/20/is-money-really-a-...

By: sitakali

sitakali — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:44:01 +0000

Actually, most motivation is intrinsic – we are motivated by things like helping others, feeling fulfilled, and feeling capable and intelligent. This is confirmed by hundreds of studies in business management and behaviour. There is no need for such a ruthless and immoral thing like the "survival instinct" to be used for motivation. This is precisely the reason that the current society is crumbling.

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Planet of Anarchy | A Division by Zer0 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:17:36 +0000

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By: David Z

David Z — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:02:22 +0000

I noticed that in RSS yesterday – cheers!

By: db0

db0 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:53:14 +0000

I don't have any link to give you on this as it's basically my own thoughts but I went ahead and crystalized them in digital form for you

By: The freedom to amass Capital breeds inequality and exploitation » A Division by Zer0

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:52:10 +0000

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By: David Z

David Z — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:15:57 +0000

"such freedom creates inequality and exploitation"

This is a concept that I'm interested in exploring – could you send me some links via e-mail or something? cheers.

By: BJ Feng

BJ Feng — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:13:04 +0000

Dbo, give it up, one of the greatest abilities we humans have is the ability to learn fairly quickly compared to other organisms. You obviously didn't know much about economics when you formulated your system, but now you know a lot more thanks to people like Easye. Others have gone down the same path you are on and seen that it's a dead end. Capitalism has many faults, but it is so enduring because it solves the problems you're currently running into. These problems, of incentive, of what to produce, of signals, of relative values, are fundamental to human society and must be addressed by all systems. Capitalism currently offers the best solution, for you to replace capitalism with a truly better system, you must offer a better method–the day a better method is offered, the world will move away from capitalism. The tide will be unstoppable just as capitalism's rise is today.

You need to address these "problems", not shy away from them. Perhaps you should consider that capitalism IS the best solution that is possible. It may not give you the answer you want, but then again we're constrained by reality all the time. The laws of physics forbid us from thinking into existence whatever it is we want. And so perhaps the natural laws of human society and interaction forbid the existence of the society you envision. Even if they don't, it is clear your system can't adequately deal with the aforementioned. It's time to make an U-turn and get back on the right path.

By: Yoo

Yoo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:29:38 +0000

I'm confused. Do the workplaces you're referring to exist independently from our mostly capitalist societies?

By: Yoo

Yoo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:22:29 +0000

I don't know, South Korea has a glut of medical students and doctors because it used to be a guaranteed way to earn a whole lot of money (same thing with lawyers and a few other jobs). And then some jobs like teachers have job security. Engineers and scientists, on the other hand …