People should earn for their labors, but only for the useful effort and sacrifice they expend. This is what people can themselves adjust in response to the incentive of payment. We pay people to put up with the sacrifices involved in doing labor. This is also what is meritorious and deserves pay. They shouldn?t get more, for example, if they have better or worse equipment, if they happen to be in a highly valued or less highly valued pursuit, if they happen to be born larger or smaller or with a quicker or less quick sense of melody or programming talent. It is only for useful effort and sacrifice that people should be paid, either morally or as an economic incentive, but the amount paid should reflect the outlay of effort, not the value of the product.
People should earn for their labors, but only for the useful effort and sacrifice they expend. This i…
Michael Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. His personal interests, outside the political realm, focus on general science reading (with an emphasis on physics, math, and matters of evolution and cognitive science), computers, mystery and thriller/adventure novels, sea kayaking, and the more sedentary but no less challenging game of GO. Albert is the author of 21 books which include: No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World; Fanfare for the Future; Remembering Tomorrow; Realizing Hope; and Parecon: Life After Capitalism. Michael is currently host of the podcast Revolution Z and is a Friend of ZNetwork.