I truly believe the notion of someone loving their job is fucking ridiculous, and here's why: Have you ever met someone who said that they would work their current job for free because they love it?
This seems like such a simple concept, but I never hear anyone argue it. Like, you clearly don't like work. You like the money
The psychology’s a little more complicated. What you’re talking about leads to the idea that labor should be compensated less if it’s enjoyable, which is bullshit. Labor is labor. Some people would gladly work for free (open source software, volunteers at charities, retired folks looking for something to do, etc), but would be offended if you offered them a low compensation. Because working “for free”, they’re getting some sort of non-monetary value out of their work, whereas offering to pay them a low wage implies that you think their work is worth that little amount, which is itself worth less than the intrinsic motivation. There’s a valley of productivity where a lot of people would actually probably work more without austerity capitalism, but how they allocate that labor would likely change to not benefit the owning class. In other words, wages are not about motivation. They are about allocation.
Eh, I feel like it's a comparative thing. Nobody would give their labor to someone else for nothing in return, but if you did have to give someone else your labor whatever job they have is great compared to other jobs.
I truly believe the notion of someone loving their job is fucking ridiculous, and here's why: Have you ever met someone who said that they would work their current job for free because they love it?
This seems like such a simple concept, but I never hear anyone argue it. Like, you clearly don't like work. You like the money
The psychology’s a little more complicated. What you’re talking about leads to the idea that labor should be compensated less if it’s enjoyable, which is bullshit. Labor is labor. Some people would gladly work for free (open source software, volunteers at charities, retired folks looking for something to do, etc), but would be offended if you offered them a low compensation. Because working “for free”, they’re getting some sort of non-monetary value out of their work, whereas offering to pay them a low wage implies that you think their work is worth that little amount, which is itself worth less than the intrinsic motivation. There’s a valley of productivity where a lot of people would actually probably work more without austerity capitalism, but how they allocate that labor would likely change to not benefit the owning class. In other words, wages are not about motivation. They are about allocation.
Eh, I feel like it's a comparative thing. Nobody would give their labor to someone else for nothing in return, but if you did have to give someone else your labor whatever job they have is great compared to other jobs.
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