If a medium of exchange for labor is indeed necessary, I’d say it should be measured in labor hours. We live finite lives, measured in minutes. A minute of your life is worth as much as a minute of mine, wouldn’t you say?
I would have no inherent problem with a system that tokenizes labor hours in some way. The problem is private ownership of the means of production and profit itself.
Untill you realize that there are a lot of kinds of work and solutions them into three groups is nooit fair to a lot of them either. You can keep cutting it up in smaller equivalents, but in the end what you’ll have is basically money.
That’s fine if you believe that. I don’t really believe that we need money, but as long as the means of production remain socialized, private profit remains impossible, unjustifiable heirarchies are dismantled, and decisions are made through direct democracy and consensus decision making, there’s a solid basis for a functioning anarchist society.
I’m not a communist so i don’t necessarily see a problem with private property, as long as there is a limit on the accumulation of it and a stop on avoiding responsibility for a companies actions.
If a medium of exchange for labor is indeed necessary, I’d say it should be measured in labor hours. We live finite lives, measured in minutes. A minute of your life is worth as much as a minute of mine, wouldn’t you say?
I would have no inherent problem with a system that tokenizes labor hours in some way. The problem is private ownership of the means of production and profit itself.
The problem with labour hours is that it doesn’t compensate for more (or less) hard or unpleasant work.
Yes, that’s true, I suppose a time-and-a-half system or similar could be used for dangerous or unpleasant work. Good point!
Untill you realize that there are a lot of kinds of work and solutions them into three groups is nooit fair to a lot of them either. You can keep cutting it up in smaller equivalents, but in the end what you’ll have is basically money.
That’s fine if you believe that. I don’t really believe that we need money, but as long as the means of production remain socialized, private profit remains impossible, unjustifiable heirarchies are dismantled, and decisions are made through direct democracy and consensus decision making, there’s a solid basis for a functioning anarchist society.
I’m not a communist so i don’t necessarily see a problem with private property, as long as there is a limit on the accumulation of it and a stop on avoiding responsibility for a companies actions.