The big argument of the Cold War should not reduced to the strawman (freely used by both sides) of "How do you get people to do stuff instead of just sitting around all day" It's the *coordination* problem, "How do you get people to do the specific things that need doing"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Which ties into the arguments about the exchange vs labor theory of value Okay, everyone at our factory spent years working on these ball bearings, but it turns out they just became obsolete and no one can use them for anything anymore Do we still get paid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
The harsh inconvenient truth that the rest of the world doesn't care much about what inspires or motivates you, and the *product* of most careers people undertake out of love or passion doesn't actually help other people very much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Most home cooks who cook for the love of cooking could not survive cooking for big groups of people in a restaurant, much less a communal dining hall To make that work you have to do all this shit to be more efficient that makes cooking no longer fun or creative, but work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Most home gardens planted with love and care don't even make enough food to actually feed the one person who planted it To make it into a working farm takes the fun out of it and adds all these chores and hard choices that make it work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Even in purely creative fields this is the dynamic We all know this by now Millions of people churn out billions of words of free fiction and nonfiction memoir and analysis for no compensation every day And it's all unreadable garbage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Like, mathematically it really is "all", Sturgeon's Law was a ratio for professional, published fiction and applied to the Internet it's astoundingly generous, in terms of sheer volume the ratio of bad to good is like a rounding error
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
You personally aren't aware of how high the ratio is because you aren't even aware most of the bad stuff exists It passes through the universe without anyone even being aware it was posted The only pleasure it added to the world was the writer's act of writing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
And that's, you know, fine It's not hurting anybody But when people say "Why do we even need such thing as a publishing industry to try to reward people for making popular art, art just happens by magic, it's a fundamental byproduct of the human experience" Come on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Is it necessary that good writers be paid in money in order to give them a reason to become good No, although in a world where everything else is purchased in money it certainly helps But in order to actually write things other people want to read, writing becomes work
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The act of thinking about whether other people want or need the thing you're doing and subordinating your desires to theirs is what makes it work People do it for reasons other than money - praise, status, fame, or even, rarely, actual altruistic compassion But it is work
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Idk this perspective is mostly because I am on disability but the social definition of "work" when you expand it to people like me is more about the illusion of productivity. You cannot measure it in need or money when you are on benifits for being unable to do that kind of work
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Replying to @BitterSnurr @arthur_affect
For these purposes something like the shop class counts as "work" enough I get to be a "good disabled person trying to contribute to society" and better myself while other disabled people I know who mostly make art are "bad". What counts as "work" socially is kinda nebulous.
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