{"id":323,"date":"2020-08-03T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=323"},"modified":"2020-08-03T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:47:08","slug":"socialsim-and-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2020\/08\/03\/socialsim-and-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialsim and Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcdigital.media\/socialism-and-human-nature-8e3640fdd775\">Socialism and Human Nature. Critics of socialism claim that because\u2026 | by Ben Burgis | Arc Digital<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This certainly sounds like Marx sees the butcher, the brewer, and the baker \u2014 or, rather, the self-managed workers at the collectivized slaughterhouses, breweries, and bakeries of the socialist future \u2014 being motivated in the \u201cduration and intensity\u201d of their work by the hope of material rewards. Of course, he envisioned this changing as socialism evolved into its next phase, but this too is easily misunderstood by those who are reading the line quoted by Pinker out of context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;next phase stuff&#8221; is carrying too much weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that we can have socialism <em class=\"ks\">and<\/em> incentives. It\u2019s unlikely that workers in a democratic economy would feel the need to incentivize anyone by paying them 287 times what others were paid \u2014 the average pay differential between workers and CEOs last year in the United States \u2014 but this doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019d settle on completely flat pay scales either. If anything, they might reverse some of the inequalities we\u2019re accustomed to under capitalism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But the cart is in front of the horse. You pay for what is produced, not pay and reap all that is produced. This is in the vein of central economic planning as talked about by Hayek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism and Human Nature. Critics of socialism claim that because\u2026 | by Ben Burgis | Arc Digital This certainly sounds like Marx sees the butcher, the brewer, and the baker \u2014 or, rather, the self-managed workers at the collectivized slaughterhouses, breweries, and bakeries of the socialist future \u2014 being motivated in the \u201cduration and intensity\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}