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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You're right, but also not really factoring all the minutia. How many more hours went into all the parts of the home? It's not a month when you have to make the screws and nails, cut the wood, polish the tile, mine the metal, etc. It's far higher.

Other than that, I agree.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 ?

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[–] joan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

this is a great oversimplification!! albeit an oversimplification

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Every billionaire is a policy failure.

nice one

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd give all my money to turn back the hours...

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Greatly expressed!

I think this whole thing about evaluating how valuable our time is is bonkers.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There was a movie like that.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

In Time. I love that movie.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Movie "Out of Time" did this. Oligarchy was definitely not solved by this.

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[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 3 points 3 months ago

Close enough, welcome back Josiah Warren /s

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