>From: billbartlett at dodo.com.au
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization
>Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:38:30 -0700
>
>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
How? Btw the profit motive is also an incentive to make good shoes. jks
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