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Janissy
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21 Apr 2014, 2:22 pm

RushKing wrote:
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Now, why can't the entire world work like this?

Why can't EVERYTHING be free, like Blender? Why can't EVERYBODY contribute with what they can and want, like they do in Blender?

If the Blender Foundation project can work, why can't the entire world work like this?


Because not every job is a fun, intellectually challenging activity which people will happily do for free, as a sort of collaborative hobby. In fact, very few are.

Because of Taylorism

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa4_ihxT9rI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqwiRTo64k[/youtube]


Taylorism gave us the "cog in the machine" aspect of many jobs and that is definately unpleasant. Nobody likes being a cog in a machine. But even without his way of doing things, lots of jobs still aren't fun, intellectually challenging activities people will happily do for free as a collaborative hobby. The Amish barn raising way of doing things does make some jobs more bearable than they became after Taylor. But a lot of things are just not going to be like that no matter how you spin it. There is just no way of making the disposal of waste a job that people clamor for but civilization collapses without it. Sewer pipe raising doesn't have the homespun charm of barn raising but the Amish must have had to do it too. Or outhouse raising. These things have to be done but they aren't something many (or enough) people like doing.



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21 Apr 2014, 2:43 pm

Janissy wrote:
There is just no way of making the disposal of waste a job that people clamor for but civilization collapses without it. Sewer pipe raising doesn't have the homespun charm of barn raising but the Amish must have had to do it too. Or outhouse raising. These things have to be done but they aren't something many (or enough) people like doing.

How would you know? Maybe enough people would be interested in the challenge, just get rid of the bureaucracy.