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  • @FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How do we ensure the correct amount of people are doing the correct amount of work? The good thing about markets is that when demand is high and supply is low it suddenly becomes lucrative to do that thing and it attracts people to doing said thing. It becomes self correcting. If you leave peopl to just do what they most want to do everybody will choose to do what they consider fun rather than what is needed.

    • @the_q@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      What’s wrong with doing what’s fun? Necessity is an interesting motivator. The problem is when capitalists commoditize necessity.

      • @FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        There’s nothing wrong with having fun, but if people just did what they wanted to do all the time, society would just straight up collapse.

        How likely is it that people’s preferred jobs match up with exactly what is needed?

        • @the_q@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          Squirrels don’t have jobs. There isn’t some overly complex system in place to keep the raccoons doing a repetitive task to ensure that hollowed or trees are available to them. The spiders don’t own those trees and almost exclusively benefit from the raccoon’s labor.

          Human society should absolutely collapse if it can’t exist without all the inequality and suffering.