The advantage of spreading the work around is that it increases social knowledge. If you understand the unpleasantness of picking up trash, you might be likely to decrease the amount of trash you produce.
More people doing a job means more people who know how to do it, and who are therefore able to come up with ideas on how to minimize it, eliminate it, make it safer... etc.
Common good is the best reward.
Joanna
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:10 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> If everyone has to do a little bit of a "dirty" job, chances are that we are more likely to figure out how not to have to do it or how to make it more palatable.
Not true. It's the person that has to do the job repeatedly who has the incentive to be creative in figuring out how to do it more efficiently - and relatively cleanly. And if they can keep their techniques under wraps, they can extract a fair reward (if no reward, you can have yours 'palatable'). ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk