Adam Greenfield on Nostr: I have always liked the salary scheme John Brunner devised toward the end of “The ...
I have always liked the salary scheme John Brunner devised toward the end of “The Shockwave Rider,” with jobs being compensated in direct proportion to their social utility, energy requirements and degree of difficulty, danger or unpleasantness. A world where middle-school teachers and care nurses were paid a hundred times what baseball players or newsreaders were would be a good world.
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