Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    How do you allocate scarce resources? Competition

    Competition is far from the only way to allocate scarce resources. If you make one box of mac and cheese, do you make your kids fight over who gets what share?

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            People share food all the time at work -- if there's a cake at an office party, you don't fight over who gets what. People share more important things at work, too, like a saw at a construction site or a printer in an office. Competion has its uses, but it's often destructive and wasteful.

                  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    We're talking about allocting scarce resources via cooperation, not competition. Whether you could make every organization completely flat (no managers) is tangential.

                    I see what you're getting at, though, and yes, of course we can allocate scarce resources by cooperation at a global scale. It already happens even in capitalist countries on issues of tremendous importance, see the negotiations around how water from the Colorado River is allocated.

      • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Education. Same way we all learned not to kinfe fight people at the mall.

          • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Nah, I don't knife fight people in the mall because that shit sucks and I have been educated about it. It isn't because society will deny me a Cinnabon if I do.