• WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    But why would I, as an individual, spend my life learning how to build buildings and then build them if I have no more benefit from doing that than I would from someone else putting in all that work? Surely I’d just do nothing and wait for someone else to do it?

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      8 months ago

      What else would you do? You get all your needs met.

      And when no money as such having a big role, you get recognized by what you do and accomplish, not by what made the most profit (that is a huge distinction imho).

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        8 months ago

        Recognition isn’t as important as you make it sound. And most people will hardly start to work out of boredom. There’s plenty of ways to spend your time that are not productive.

        In addition, there are plenty of jobs literally nobody wants to do, and consequently, nobody would do under your proposed system.

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          8 months ago

          With absence of money as the main ‘power’ it’s your deeds that are the only thing left to define the extra exclusive things like apartments, experiences, etc.

          And that is the thing, afaik all studies & experiments concluded that people start being productive regardless. It’s not “out of boredom”. Its just something to do. Sure, not everything benefits everyone, but imagine the impact of all the eg artist stuck flipping burgers. They would seem ‘unproductive’ just “laying about” until they produce a pice the whole world recognizes as something special (and not just because of the marketing budget).

          Basically no one just stays still doing nothing, definitely not a significant margin. Same with animals, at the very least they will play.

          Eg, could you imagine your life without long-term producing/making/planning something?