Socialism

[Admiral Yi]

If you want to ignore the fact that there are other methods then you are missing out on the last 50 years or so of management studies in the area of increasing productivity.

Christ almighty.  What do you expect to achieve by deleting the part of my post that's relevant to your response?

[crazy canuck]

I didnt

[DGuller]

I'm not sure I get Yi's point.  Is he saying that every accommodation has a money value, and so in effect any improvement in workplace quality of life is just a form of monetary compensation?

[crazy canuck]

I'm not sure I get Yi's point.  Is he saying that every accommodation has a money value, and so in effect any improvement in workplace quality of life is just a form of monetary compensation?

His point has something to do with flexible work hours equating to not sitting on cinder blocks but that is as far as I got.

[Jacob]

I'm not sure I get Yi's point.  Is he saying that every accommodation has a money value, and so in effect any improvement in workplace quality of life is just a form of monetary compensation?

The main thing I'm getting from him is that I don't want to work for him, and I don't want to hire him for any kind of management position either.

[The Brain]

No matter how comfy the chair you won't work unless you get money. Or you are forced to work.

[crazy canuck]

No matter how comfy the chair you won't work unless you get money. Or you are forced to work.

Except it was pointed out to him that nobody is suggesting people work for no money.   He is just wrong that money by itself is the only thing that can motivate people to be productive.

[Siege]

Because history has abundantly shown that the profit motive and the price mechanism are the most efficient way of allocating resources to create the goods and services that maximize human satisfaction, and a more efficient way of incentivizing productive behavior than ballets about tractors or bayonets and gulags.

Bah.  There has to be a happy medium somewhere between unrepentant, society-destroying greed and dysfunctional, myopic central planning.  One that doesn't involve explosives or guillotines.

Society destroying greed?

Dude, greed is the engine of the world.
Everything human civilization have ever achieved have been because of someones' greed.

[CountDeMoney]

Dude, greed is the engine of the world.

Says the Jew wannabe.

[Admiral Yi]

The main thing I'm getting from him is that I don't want to work for him, and I don't want to hire him for any kind of management position either.

What an odd thing to say.

[Eddie Teach]

The main thing I'm getting from him is that I don't want to work for him, and I don't want to hire him for any kind of management position either.

What an odd thing to say.

Creative differences.

[Ed Anger]

I'd hire Yi. @ $8/hr.

[CountDeMoney]

The main thing I'm getting from him is that I don't want to work for him, and I don't want to hire him for any kind of management position either.

What an odd thing to say.

No kidding, your outlook has worked for Romney types for ages.  I see no downside.

[Jacob]

What an odd thing to say.

Really? Seems pretty clear to me - your management philosophy as you've laid it out seems counter-productive to me, so I wouldn't want to be subjected to it or introduce it into any organization over whichI had control.

[crazy canuck]

Yi, given your hate for unions, you might want to consider that the main reason employees unionize is not for monetary gain.  A lot of research has shown that the main reason is that employees feel they need from protection from asshole managers.