Flippanarchy

Okay, first day here and I already see I perhaps shouldn't have subscribed.

Anyone who thinks about it for a second longer than it takes to read it will see the problem - this rules completely devalue skilled work. An hour of sweeping the floor is valued the same as hour-long operation on sick patient. Except cost of becoming a doctor is countless hours paid to teachers, professors etc. while cost of becoming a cleaner is just a broom. Rewards is the same, so why bother? Why take risky job or something that requires upstart investment? In fact you would need to work years as a menial worker before you afford learning any skilled job... unless we add loans but with loans we explain why there are billionaires "I never did 10 000 hours of work, but I loaned my hours with interest"

Also - anyone who does farming will most likely notice that a daily intake of food necessary to survival will probably cost you a week of work or so...

I'm all for treating everyone fairly, but this idea is the kinda shit that starts dystopias.

"The problem with capitalism is that there's billionaires who steal too much labor, and everything would be fixed if correct policy was put into place that turned everyone into a small business owner"

didn't know we're simping for Mussolini here

Why is it that half the posts i see from this comm use the logic of a child?

Fun math, assuming 3 million man hours to design, test, and bring a car to production and 35 hours to build the actual car, a 200k unit run would work out to 50 hours per car.

different jobs have different values

a doctor should objectively be paid more than a salesman

but he isnt

the salesman social engineers society into thinking hes important

he is the definition of a parasite

A house costs a year? There's a house being built near me and it's been under construction for about a year by several teams of workers plus the owners every afternoon and weekend. (this is in Germany so it's not made of matches and paper). And that's not counting the hours needed to extract the raw materials and process them into bricks, insulation, glass, cables or pipes. There's a TON of labor to build a modern house.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours

Many towns/places have tried doing that as a local currency. It never seems to stick....

Everyone's hours would be equally valued. The problem is not every job's hours is equal.

You would have lots of people in white collar jobs, but you would struggle to fill positions like sanitation worker, oil rig worker etc.

The issue is not with currency, the problem is with capital markets and value that is not directly linked to a product or time.

Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat features a planet like this that was initially governed by a computer. Such a good series, highly recommend as anarchist entertainment.

So how does it work if I spend 10-20,000 hours in medical school and then spend three minutes setting your broken bone?

Everybody would be working sooooo sloooowly....

I know that movie!