A Victoria man has gone two decades without money

Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by bserge on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:00AM (#27949637)

In the case of a small community, it can be left to volunteers (optionally offer them a meal/beer) or simply rotation so everyone does the unwanted jobs. It's a fair system and people will do it.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by vorpalhex on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:10AM (#27949705)

Every office, multi-tenant household and often times families themselves fight over this.

People will not do tasks merely because it's "fair". Otherwise crime would have evaporated, life would be harmonious, and judges would be bored.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by boomlinde on Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:02PM (#27954394)

On the other hand I think being bunced up with people I don't know, don't really care about or outright dislike is, at least to some extent, a side effect of the extreme centralization of work opportunities since the industrial revolution. Functionally, in terms of production, apartment complexes and offices are to people what coops are to chickens.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by bserge on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:17AM (#27949747)

Well, then it's back to violence. Truly the ultimate force.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by AussieWog93 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:26AM (#27949832)

Practically, that doesn't work. Some people will do a half-arsed, terrible job and it's better for the community that they stay out of the way and contribute otherwise.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by stevejb on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:26PM (#27954214)

> simply rotation so everyone does the unwanted jobs. It's a fair system and people will do it.

I think that what would end up happening is that in even in a small group of people, it would naturally emerge that there are variations in quality, efficient, economies of scale, etc. Even in my immediate family, there are some menial jobs that my wife does 90-100% of and some menial jobs that I do 90-100% of. If we tried to make if 50-50 or have some type of rotation, we would both lose.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by boomlinde on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:51PM (#27954338)

> If we tried to make if 50-50 or have some type of rotation, we would both lose.

Because you recognize this and aren't completely inflexible, you don't. Some degree of self-organization for mutual convenience can be relied on in much larger groups of people than two. For example, I often hear of shift workers trading shifts.

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