HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: “This is the way almost everyone behaves if they are collaborating on some common ...
“This is the way almost everyone behaves if they are collaborating on some common project. At least they do unless there is some specific reason not to — for instance, a hierarchical division of labour that says some people get coffee and others will not. If someone fixing a broken water pipe says ‘hand me the wrench,’ their co-worker will not generally say ‘and what do I get for it?’ even if they are working for Exxon-Mobil, Burger King or Goldman Sachs. The reason — ironically, given the conventional wisdom that ‘communism just doesn’t work’– is simple efficiency: if you really care to get something done, allocating tasks by ability and giving people whatever they need to do the job is obviously the most efficient way to go about it.”
David Graeber
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/communism/Published at
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