Northern Davincia wrote:Orostan wrote:Cooperatives would be set up as such. Let us say we have one product, a car. This car is produced in two different factories. These cooperatives compete to produce the car most efficiently, and they do so because being more efficient reduces their working hours. It personally benefits them to work less because they can do other things, even if work is pleasant.
The number of people who will just choose not to work in any sort of way and sit at home is an extremely small minority. The vast majority of people want to do something.
Capital is very good at improving existing technologies, but it often takes the government funding development to get long term research (new inventions) done. A socialist system will be at least as good as capital in the former, and much better in the latter.
So if work is optional, why care about how many hours you work? You could show up for one hour and do very little, yet still get the very car others worked hard on for free.
For the greater good of society.
You do know there are other ways to motivate people other than pay, right?