Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by bsanr on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:39PM
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>$50/hr for delivering papers would most likely cause the prompt and total collapse of the local economy.
I imagine it would merely cause the prompt and total collapse of the paperboy position, until efficiencies were created to support it (e.x., there's only one paperboy for n square miles, they oversee a swarm of paper-delivering drones, and the number of papers they deliver justifies a $50/hr salary); people simply decided that physical paper delivery wasn't worth the cost; or they decided that it was worth it, and had their pay and expenses adjusted commensurately.
>I'm only aghast that the proposed cure is actually much worse than the disease!
I'm not sure you've proven that.
>I agree wholeheartedly, but I'd guess we probably disagree on the remedy. I'd defer to the market which would of course require a free market to exist in the first place for things like housing.
The laissez-faire approach to market management is what "innovated" tent cities into existence in the first place, man.
I imagine it would merely cause the prompt and total collapse of the paperboy position, until efficiencies were created to support it (e.x., there's only one paperboy for n square miles, they oversee a swarm of paper-delivering drones, and the number of papers they deliver justifies a $50/hr salary); people simply decided that physical paper delivery wasn't worth the cost; or they decided that it was worth it, and had their pay and expenses adjusted commensurately.
>I'm only aghast that the proposed cure is actually much worse than the disease!
I'm not sure you've proven that.
>I agree wholeheartedly, but I'd guess we probably disagree on the remedy. I'd defer to the market which would of course require a free market to exist in the first place for things like housing.
The laissez-faire approach to market management is what "innovated" tent cities into existence in the first place, man.