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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:27:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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...you suddenly have a nation of taxi cab drivers and no one
willing to put forth the extra effort because there is no reward
for doing so.
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This is a fairly typically cited flaw with communism. It presumes some stuff
that don’t jibe with my observations of the real world and I’d be interested to
see how you explain them. (Perhaps as annecdotes that don’t mean anything, but
if so, I want to see the data from the psych evaluations that you’re using for
your broadly implicative claims.)
I know a bunch of scientists. Many, many of them make way less money being
physicists and biologists and chemists than they could in private sector IT.
But working at Fermilab, trying to unlock the secrets of the universe or doing
research and teaching at public universities seems to provide rewards far more
important to those individuals than the cash incentive. I know an accomplished
attorney who makes way less then I do because he works for individuals for free
and part time, for pay, for a charity.
Do you really think most people only do interesting and useful stuff because
they’re paid more? The broad evidence that I see (Punished by Rewards by
Alfie Kohn) suggests that providing motivational incentives actually harms the
long-term goal of those using “common sense” to set up the incentive programs.
Chris
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| (...) The "some animals are more equal than others" perversion. But that still is minor in relation to trying to enforce a taxi driver and brain surgeon making the same amount (and of course, with tips, the taxt driver won out over years of (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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