>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.
Why these caricatures? Why is it so hard to imagine an institutional structure where producers do market research, and if people don't like the stuff they stop making it? In the run-up to utopia, incentives and disincentives are just fine with me.
How badly do senior execs suffer the consequences of bad decisions under American capitalism, anyway? It's mostly the workers who take the hits.
Doug