andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Stick to the point. We agree that capitalist
>parasitism has to go. That doesn't mean that we should
>or would tolerate socialist parasitism -- or plain
>shirking and goofing off. It's as irrelevant to my
>point to say that it's bad that people should become
>rich by speculation or exploitation of labor. I
>agree. My point. however, is that even if we get rid
>of that sort of parasitism, we would encourage another
>sort of parasitism if we delinked contribution from
>reward, making it a matter of indifference to anyone
>whether they bothered to work. I flat out don't think
>that it answers this problem to say that people would
>just want to do their best out of a spirit of
>camaraderie and socialist solidarity.
>
I think everyone would do their best because it's human nature. If you
don't, you don't feel quite fully alive. If you see children grow up,
you notice that (absent trauma and repression) they are always reaching
to do as much as they can. Because it's fun. In a culture that is fairly
healthy and which is defined by cooperative living, everyone would want
to pitch in pretty much in the same way that everyone "wants" to get
toilet trained at a certain point -- because there would be social
shaming if they didn't, and because it's fun to join in.
Joanna