On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Patience <[email protected]> wrote:
> "because most people just aren't motivated when a crappy effort pays the > same as a good effort." > > People are naturally selfish. They would have been happy if they never new > what someone else was earning > I have to seriously disagree with that statement. You said it yourself: "People are naturally selfish." But here's the thing...that's how we evolved and eventually climbed our way to the top of the food chain. Any society similar to the Soviet Union is destined to fail, because human beings are incapable of living in a society of equals. What drives the human race is not the collective...it's the individual. The greatest achievements and discoveries of human history were pioneered by individuals, not "the human race". The individual is driven to succeed and achieve excellence. When you remove the possibility for the individual to achieve, the individual stops striving, because striving becomes an unnecessary expenditure of time and energy...another "red flag" we learned to pick up on through evolution. I've seen this happen, time and time again, in individual workplaces. When it becomes impossible for a worker to achieve (typically through poor management decisions or corporate policy), the worker no longer has incentive to expend more energy than what is necessary to simply collect his/her paycheck. Multiply that throughout every workplace in every city in the country, and you now have the former Soviet Union, destined to obsolesce itself. A successful society embraces human nature, it doesn't seek to twist it into something it isn't. Sorry...everything above came across like pontificating (I have that habit), but it's definitely merely a summation of my opinion. Nat
