NP - The Myth of a Jobless Recovery

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Money has never been a particularly  meaningful motivator. It is a bit
addicting, however. As a society, we need to recover from money not for
money.


-----Original Message-----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 11:45 am
Subject: Re: NP - The Myth of a Jobless Recovery


Two things to check out here:
from Money … And its role in a just society

By Michael Dirda

No doubt such thinking will be dubbed, or denounced, as socialistic or
un-American. It’s certainly completely Utopian. But I am a child of
both the working class and the 1960s. I don’t like gross monetary
inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong
professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the
hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve
their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Of course, no one ever listens to me. But after the deplorable
behavior of our legislative officials this past fall in dealing with
the fiscal crisis, after the childish, know-nothing recalcitrance of
the Tea Party, after the almost weekly corruption scandals among our
moguls and financial “advisors,” after the outrageous golden
parachutes allocated to inept executives, and, most of all, after the
general and ongoing contempt demonstrated by the haves for the have
nots, it’s enough to make even a mild-mannered book reviewer depressed
and ashamed for his country.


http://theamericanscholar.org/money/

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA,
illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home
and in the workplace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Depends on what is being produced. If it's shirts and toys, yes. If
>> it's innovative technologies and engineering or applied education,
no.
>>
>> In fact, productivity declines when wage incentives are introduced in
>> the higher end. Imagine that! Seems odd, but it is true.
>>
>> Sure, give a piece worker another penny to produce more and she will,
>> but not a softwear maker.
>
>
> Maslowe's pyramid? how high up is that, where that happens?  don't
> even the software companies routinely foster sweatshop-like conditions
> - at least in terms of hours worked - using cash inducements?
>
> a-and in fact your 1% probably slaves away at reading those
> prospectuses &c and having long boring meetings which aren't that much
> fun and swatting away bad PR that they know in their heart is pretty
> true which can't be that much fun either --- they're stuck on the
> lower levels of the self-realization pyramid themselves it seems.
>
> ah well, not my lookout really except insofar as it relates to Pynchon
> -- I'm thinking of Benny Profane's graffito, "screw all you rich
> bastards" or words to that effect, and of the, well, anhedonia
> shimmering around all the Vibes...
> to the point where I, at least, felt a bit sorry for even old SV
>
> "take a sad song, and make it better"