Re:Programmer distillation
by sparebytes on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:49PM
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Well you wouldn't see any garbage men, or just about anything shown on Dirty Jobs
Re:Programmer distillation
by likeclockwork on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @02:43AM
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So you're saying these jobs are only done under the threat of starvation?
He said "no job paid any money", not Milton Friedman style guaranteed income. A lot of jobs need to pay a premium over the alternatives to get enough people to do them.
Right and that is a part of the thought experiment. How would society evolve around not being able to compensate people to do those things through money? It is just a thought experiment though and I was not trying to solve any problems, I was just wondering what jobs are the most attractive once you remove money from the equation.
Wow, did you not even think for a second about the consequences?
We'd need to decouple work and wages
Well what incentive would people have to go to 11 years of college then to become a surgeon? What incentive would a start-up founder have to work 80 hour weeks for years on end if there was no chance to get rich off of it?
What job would have the most people applying for if no job paid any money? In other words, if salary and job were decoupled, what result would we see?
The job which required the least amount of effort. The more difficult or time consuming the job, the less applicants there would be.
Re:Programmer distillation
by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @08:42AM
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No, it's an interesting idea. People would do what they wanted to do as opposed to what they had to do in order to earn a living. I can look to my wife as an example. She's a horse trainer. She makes very little money (pretty small market for clients to start with), gets injured frequently: sometimes badly, but absolutely loves the work.
There are many of us out there who really like what we do and would do it even if we weren't paid, as long as we still had a source of income
Perhaps we ought to guarantee a certain amount of money to everyone whether they be Warren Buffet or Joe Schmucks. Then, we'd get rid of the minimum wage.
I had a similar conversation with a coworker this morning. What job would have the most people applying for if no job paid any money? In other words, if salary and job were decoupled, what result would we see?