At work, do you help your co-worker without asking, or do you have them sign a contract and exchange money?
Re:“People simply empty out”
by nostrademons on Friday August 16, 2013 @03:38AM
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You do that because you have a reasonable expectation that they'll help you back in the future, though. If you have a coworker that always needs help and never contributes anything back, eventually you'll start grumbling and stop helping. (Such coworkers usually eventually get fired in well-performing organizations, or marginalized and ignored in poorly-performing ones.)
Re:“People simply empty out”
by auggierose on Friday August 16, 2013 @03:27AM
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You've signed a contract with your employer to provide that help, you are not doing it for free.
> For quite a long time now, the technical means have existed to provide the basics of life to every human being on the planet at a modest cost.
Are you sure we have all the fuel and land to feed, house and clothe everyone? And if so, who's going to work for that? If everyone gets food and shelter for free, I'm not working to provide that.
The reality is, food needs to be grown, clothes made and houses built. Some people need to work for that. In exchange for that work, they ask some sort of compensation from others, in the form of other services or goods. This has nothing to do with the "global elite", this is just the nature of trade. I think giving someone stuff for free without getting anything in return is a greater injustice than this "instutionalized theft" you speak of.