A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by WalterBright on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:41PM (#27417768)

It can work fine if they can find enough people who feel good about being altruistic and don't want more. There are certainly people like that. Are there enough to run an economy? Not remotely. Are there enough to run a largish organization? Nope.

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Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by neolog on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:04PM (#27417899)

> Are there enough to run a largish organization? Nope.

I'm not convinced this is true. I can think of some small organizations full of employees who could make more money elsewhere but who are dedicated to an altruistic cause.

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Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by WalterBright on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:08PM (#27417926)

> small

Sounds like you agree with me.

BTW, the D Language Foundation is an example :-)

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Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by neolog on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:55PM (#27418162)

I can think of a bunch of small organizations. Together that's enough people to fill a large organization. Maybe there are some other properties of large organizations that make it impossible to compose them out of altruistic people.

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Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by WalterBright on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:23PM (#27418706)

I can't think of any large organization that operates without people motivated by their self interest. Can you?

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Re:A Lifetime of Systems Thinking by neolog on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:04AM (#27418893)

I can't think of any large organizations containing only people who are financially secure, which seems like basically a prerequisite.

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