Re: Work or Pay Systems | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Racheli Gai (rachelisonoracohousing.com) | |
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:51:31 -0700 (PDT) |
Well, I profoundly disagree with the glowing assessment of capitalism
provided by Tim, but
my intention isn't to get into an argument over the nature of
capitalism, and whether
it's good or evil. I just wish to point out that at least one chunk of
the disagreement,
and especially the HEAT surrounding the debate regarding work and pay
has to do with the
different values/ideologies held by different people. I think that
often issues
become heated when there are deep competing sets of beliefs... This is
also
what makes it hard (and sometimes impossible) to get them resolved. Racheli. On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Tim Mensch wrote:
There are problems with the current implementation of capitalism in the US, but the fact is that capitalism is what enabled the creation of 99%of the wealth (and probably several more nines after that) on the planettoday (see The Origin of Wealth, Beinhocker). Without it, you wouldn't have the privilege of being able to live comfortably while criticizing capitalism on a home computer, on the Internet--which also wouldn't exist in its current form. Corruption--and pathological greed--is focusing that wealth far too much to be healthy, but the existence of that wealth is a direct result of capitalism. It may not be perfect, but every other system that's been tried has failed. Read The Soul of Capitalism by William Greider for ideas on howto help improve capitalism. A point I made in the previous email--that I could be donating expert time instead of cleaning toilets--is an example of how cohousing would actually prevent that skill from being applied ina way that would improve the world, and instead waste that expert time and energy working on a task that you could pay $15/hour to quickly dispatch. And in the latter case, you're helping someone who likely needs the work, so how is this a bad thing, exactly?
- Re: Work or Pay Systems, (continued)
- Re: Work or Pay Systems melanie griffin, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Kay Argyle, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Tim Mensch, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Joanie Connors, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Racheli Gai, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Raines Cohen, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Brian Bartholomew, July 31 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Sharon Villines, August 1 2008
- Re: Work or Pay Systems Tim Mensch, August 1 2008
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