Rene Churchill wrote: > While the socialist ideal of "From each according to their ability. To > each according to their needs" would result in a more Utopian ideal, it > just doesn't match up against reality. There needs to be some kind of > reward system to encourage folks to greater effort than just the minimum.
Ya, seriously. A market (the job market in this case) isn't something evil, it is just a way to decide how much one hour of X is in relation to one hour of Y. The huge barriers to (legal) entry into the market (the minimum wage, various tax withholdings, unemployment insurance, liability, termination issues, soon health care, etc.) are all reasons that law abiding citizen realistically must go to a corp to purchase most of the labor they require. I can't imagine that a plumber would pay a weeder's social security, or that the weeder would pay his own self employment tax. How does this exchange deal with those problems? If its members just skirt the socialist barriers which are standing in the way of an genuine efficient labor market, then it is pretty ironic that they hold out a socialist valuation for the work itself. -- Anthony Carrico
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