"Punishment"? Re: Centralization

billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Fri Jul 5 11:38:30 PDT 2002


At 8:40 PM +0000 4/7/02, Justin Schwartz wrote:


>>Under capitalism, the main disincentive is unemployment. What are socialist disincentives?.
>
>Depends on the kind of socialism. Under some people's conception of planned socialism, there are no disincentives, because that's negative, and negative is bad. Maybe social disapproval. Nasty e-mails saying, your shoes suck.

I think you are approaching this from the wrong direction. We stubbornly take for granted the disincentives for making bad shoes, such as the profit motive or rigid production quotas and forced labour. Why not just remove the incentives for making bad shoes?

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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