>I don't like work to be fair to my employer, but because I mainly like what
>I do, and I enjoy solving challenging problems in an elegant and
>craftsmanlike way. It's an utterly Marxian motivational set.
>
>To be fair, these were the motivations that *you* suggested were the
>important ones, *I* have always assumed that people would do their work
>because simply because they like what they choose freely to do and because
>they enjoy the challenge.
>
>It seems your motivations and incentives are different than the ones to
>ascribe to everyone else? I'm tempted to rest my case. ;-)
I forget to mention that I do it for money, and i wouldn't do it if it were not for the money. Also I'm lucky: I've always had jobs that allow me to act from those motivations. Most people, as you know, do not. So yes, although I think that workers would be more likely to be motivated in the Marxisn awy if their labor was less alienated, it mostly isn;t, so their motivations are different. That's a function of their social situation. This should not be Greek. It should be obvious. That said, I do not think that Marxian motivations are sufficient to solve the problems of doing necessary labor, or gettingit done. Given my druthers, I'd rather do social or legal philosophy than solve legal problems (whatever sort of problems might demand my skills under your favored socialism). We still need incentives, positive and negative, to keep people's minds on their work. Otherewise, like you, they will be parasites and shirkers,a nd maybe proud of it.
jks
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