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Yes, but ftr, there's already a film with this premise.
Some 2010's pseudo-thriller with Justin Timberlake that had a super generic name like "On Time" that I can't quite remember. I don't know if it's any good, because one really stupid line from the trailer I recall "4 minutes for a cup of coffee?!" with the most lackluster delivery still lives rent free in my head, and I couldn't bring myself to watch it lol
It was okay.
this is a great oversimplification!! albeit an oversimplification
This is exactly how I think about my money. I'm confused why not many other people do this. It really makes you think twice about what you spend your money on a lot of times.
Okay but compare two writers. One writer works years on one book and the other is Stephen King. Should the book of the writer who toils to finish one book be more expensive than the book of the writer who finished his book in a matter of weeks when these books are the same length ?
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
nice one
This only works as a minimum for menial jobs, and if everyone gets 1000 hours every month, no matter their circumstances, and jobs give more hours the harder and more dangerous they are.
May as well call them "credit" instead, since it'd have to be actually detached from hours.
But if you only have credits, you end up with capitalism again.
We need two more currencies: karma and laurels.
You'd get karma when you do stuff that is helpful to others; it doesn't matter if you do it for selfish reasons, as long as it helps others. You'd get laurels when you do stuff no one has done before. Karma and laurels would be non-transferable.
Karma would represent how much you help society, so society pays back. You could spend karma to pay lower taxes and even to directly get credits from the government. Maybe other benefits too, depending on technological advancements.
Laurels would let you call 'dibs' on stuff. Like being able to benefit exlusively for something you invented. The better the invention and the more it benefits people, the more laurels you get and the longer the exclusivity you can maintain before it becomes public domain.
Now we just need some sort of benign gestalt AI like in the Culture books to ensure karma and laurels are accounted impartially.
Greatly expressed!
I think this whole thing about evaluating how valuable our time is is bonkers.
There was a movie like that.
In Time. I love that movie.
A friend of mine wrote a short scifi story where people living on a space station were paid in "keeptime" which you used for everything, including paying for lofe support. Basically the epstein class's dream there: captive population with nowhere to escape to, completely dependent on you even for air.
Why is it that half the posts i see from this comm use the logic of a child?
Guess they have to keep up with their day job of posting 10-20 posts a day, lots of it is going to be brimstone
Movie "Out of Time" did this. Oligarchy was definitely not solved by this.
Close enough, welcome back Josiah Warren /s
I see a lot of folk have spotted the skilled work issue.
Perhaps a slight solve to this isn't making education free, but actually counting those hours as work.
Like, be paid to be educated.
The fallout of this, of course, is that we have to let go of the notion that anybody can do anything. Strict skills based examinations and vastly increased competition for some jobs.
Ultimately a lot of people will be forced into working jobs they don't want, especially those with disabilities.
Oh wait, I think we've just rediscovered Ayn Rand by accident.
I think some kind of system where you bank those hours and they multiply your rate when you actually work, paying back the hours you studied after you've proven you can succeed.