From: "anar wally" <anarwally-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Democracy
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:47:09 PST


Ben replied to Scott:
>
>>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.
>
>Do you mean best paid jobs, easiest jobs, most interesting jobs or 
what? 
>Would there be 'best jobs' at all? Anyway communities have much more 
>effective ways of preventing that then catagerising jobs and then 
>randomely assighning them to people. I feel I have a write to chose my 
>future work and that my choice will still be consistent with what the 
>community wants however I'll be catergorized with an 'overall 
>positioning number' when I finish school thats unlikely to be a true 
>measure of my ability but will nevertheless in paart dictate my future. 
>Thats annoying enough with outsomebody deciding peoples futures 
>randomely.
>
>Yours
>Ben
I have started reading a book called "Looking Forward" by Michael Albert 
and Robin Hahnel.  They have an idea called "job complexex" where 
everyone would have a combination of "good" and "bad" jobs (however you 
choose to define them) to do each day or week.  Combinine more rewarding 
work with rote, boring work.  

I haven't read the whole book yet, but it is an idea at least.

wally

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