Except that doesn’t really add up in reality. People do want to contribute. People do want to feel useful.
A lot of today’s most important functions are done by people who do it out of a love for the field, not because they’re paid well to do it. I’m thinking teachers. I’m thinking academics. I’m thinking people in certain medical fields such as nursing. A lot of these jobs frankly suck compared to other ones, and the list isn’t limited to these.
Hell, I work at the place I do because I like the idea of working with what I do than just going private, even though I’m literally losing out on lots of money doing so.
And then you got stuff like the wealth of Free And Open Source software that people develop because they like to contribute. You got wikipedia. You got so many things people do just because they want to contribute, the list is almost endless.
Humans are wired to be pro-social. We could absolutely make it work. If anything, capitalism stands in the way of this goodness!
Except that doesn’t really add up in reality. People do want to contribute. People do want to feel useful.
A lot of today’s most important functions are done by people who do it out of a love for the field, not because they’re paid well to do it. I’m thinking teachers. I’m thinking academics. I’m thinking people in certain medical fields such as nursing. A lot of these jobs frankly suck compared to other ones, and the list isn’t limited to these.
Hell, I work at the place I do because I like the idea of working with what I do than just going private, even though I’m literally losing out on lots of money doing so.
And then you got stuff like the wealth of Free And Open Source software that people develop because they like to contribute. You got wikipedia. You got so many things people do just because they want to contribute, the list is almost endless.
Humans are wired to be pro-social. We could absolutely make it work. If anything, capitalism stands in the way of this goodness!