A substitute for money as a method of valuing someone's worth aka Cloud Cuckoo Land Thread

‘oh Rony your great at yor job managing everyone you have really turned this place around, shame six month is up back to the sewers for u lad’

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hmm grr

like the intro to thunderstruck

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Bless him. The number of times I’ve had to say ‘seen it’ <3

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Almost exactly!

You’re more than free to board the plane to mars if you don’t like it here.

I think medals are the way forward. You get given a jacket at the start of your career. The better you do, the more you accrue. You can have special medals for special achievements. Like the scouts. Here’s my “decreased wastage without losing a single member of staff” medal etc.

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Why not, huh.

Maybe we train people to be skilled in various fields. There’d also be a surplus of people with necessary skills, once we eliminate unnecessary industries like publishing, architecture, and most of the film/music industry.

NEXT

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I thought of a really good thread the other day but it’s kinda like this one so I won’t bother with it.

If you had to calculate what the amount of resources everyone in the world should have in order for it to be equal everyone on Dis would have more than that, which we all know. However it doesn’t stop us spending our money on trivial things like watching football, clothes or wanting to get paid more rather than sending this money to others obviously below the calculated even amount etc. Maybe money isn’t the problem

And how are people incentivised to participate in this society? What if people just say, “Nah, I’m alright thanks, m8.”

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there’s a big computing machine that you go up to at age 20 and it says “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY!” and then you tell it and it gives you the resources to achieve it.

Money isn’t an incentive if it’s worthless.

Isn’t the knowledge that you’re working and living in a comparatively much fairer, ethical and progressive society incentive enough?

Again, I see that this won’t be for everyone, so they can go to mars. (We’re keeping the moon)

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for me I’d like a small place to live with like 3 rooms, maybe £20 a week to spend on dumb snacks, a place to live and electricity, a few instruments and a computer to make music. Nothing else for life really. The computer could probably achieve that with £20k a year.

Most people would probably be similar except a lot of humans need holidays and things so maybe they’d want closer to £25k a year

No we need to make more money

probably I should have less money than most because I don’t have children too

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I’m sure there are loads of people out there for whom almost nothing is incentive enough for them to make a solid contribution to society.

No, given that it’s only been a thing for a few hundred years out of the whole of human history.

People’s incentive before was so they didn’t starve to death and weren’t imprisoned, tortured or killed.

most people will believe most of what they’re taught from early childhood so in theory it’d be easy to teach everyone to be good and kind to each other

Hmmmm…it’s funny how blueprints for socialist utopia always seem to ignore the brutal totalitarian fear-states that have historically magically arisen.