2. I don't understand why economic growth is the most important thing!
3. Hopefully, in a few years machines will do all the work for us, and we can all reap the rewards together as we sleep until noon."
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"My soccer coach used to tell us that 'there's no I in team.' The response the better players on the team used to give was, 'Yeah, but there's an I in win.' What I found is that we needed those couple [of] people who would dribble the ball as far up the field as they could, without passing . . ., as well as those who would get the ball and immediately pass it on because they weren't confident of their dribbling skills. I think our economy works the same way." | |
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"I'm comparing two jobs that I have worked at. I must say the one with the negative incentives operated much better. Fear of being reprimanded or fired is what motivated us. At the other [job], employees were given the freedom of responsibility and no-one took it. In fact, people took advantage by taking more. No-one took responsibility for the store, only their self-interest . . . ." | |
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"Equality definitely helps productivity. I worked in a factory one summer . . .where OSHA was the most hated organization and the boss refused to come out of his office to interact with the workers. I felt like a machine as I worked. Was I a productive worker? No! I plotted against this job every day I was there. This company took my personhood away 40 hours a week. My next job I was in a union. For the time I was there, I moved up the ladder (a very little) and was a happy, healthy worker dedicated to my job." | |
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"Positive vs. negative incentives--depends on the situation. It just seems odd to me that a country is successful if it manages to exploit other countries. I mean, group selection seems wrong to me. What do we lose by joining large groups? Is it acceptable to apply scientific theory to social situations? Darwin himself would not support Social Darwinism. Then again, how do we explain Africa? It's doing so poorly because of exploitation by Europeans. But why was that allowed? Maybe they didn't understand which group they belonged to? Africans sold slaves to Europeans. This is much more complicated, I know." | |
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"1. Ross Perot, Buchanan, and other such
populists have all the wrong answers to all the right
questions. 2. I don't understand why economic growth is the most important thing! 3. Hopefully, in a few years machines will do all the work for us, and we can all reap the rewards together as we sleep until noon." |