Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 08:29:45 -0800
From: Dave Hayman <dhayman-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: Democracy


I don't think that eliminating all community authority over job
assignment would work. There will always be selfish people trying to hog
the best jobs, and if the community doesn't prevent this, it's gonna
happen.

Insert here yet another plug for the Albert/Hahnel Participatory
Economics plan.

Sandi & Scott Spaeth wrote:
> 
> At 01:20 PM 2/19/99 PST, Ben B. wrote:
> >I've never thought that in an anarchist society that anyone/method would
> >have the power to decide upon who recieves what job. Neither election
> >nor random selection should decide someones work and it would be
> >meaningless to say that one person had a single job when he might
> >participate in numerous other activities that his skills can contributed
> >.Jobs should be taken by whoever is doing the work and in that way
> >everyone would be able to contribute to their own ability.
> >
> 
> I gotta agree with this, eliminating the artificial division of labor will
> go a long way toward removing the problem of both the 'need' for
> representitives and for those to do the 'shit' jobs.
>