Hi Kevin,<br><br>I wonder if you'd have some time to explore anagorism, a non-market approach<br><br>the passage also quotes a science-fiction about distributing labor,<br><br>see<br><br><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">
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<p>= Anagorism is the notion that the exchange paradigm can be
overcome; that cooperation can supplant competition. <a href="https://anagory.wordpress.com/about/" class="external autonumber">[1]</a>
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<p>"Anagorism, of course, seeks an alternative to property and markets,
not just to employers and employees. How to implement an alternative to
market employment? One tool I envision is One Big Database for matching
people to �jobs.� One science fiction implementation is �Divab� in
Ursula LeGuin�s novel The Dispossessed. They key element to such a
scheme, as I see it, is transparency. The most odious burden the status
quo labor market places on me is the necessity of networking, or
maintaining the type of social contacts to know where at least some of
the �unadvertised� openings are. The statist approach, of course, would
be to require public posting of all vacancies. A dual power approach
might start with the approach of acknowledging that for now, information
about available jobs is insider information, but instead of seeking to
become an insider through networking, seek to expose the information
through crowdsourcing. If One Big Database can�t be created, at least a
sort of distributed database should be possible; hopefully indexing a
larger fraction of the labor market than proprietary engines such as
<a href="http://monster.com">monster.com</a>, which makes people jump through countless hoops of saying
�no, thank you� to for-profit �universities� in exchange for access to
mostly low-value information.
</p><p>I�m not sure what might be the ultimate goal of anagorism when it
comes to matters of employment or alternatives to it. Sufficiently
cheap technologies of automated manufacturing might mean total economic
self-sufficiency for each individual, without the interdependence which
necessitates push-and-shove venues such as trading in the market
economy. High-tech modification of the humyn form might result in people
getting by with physical inputs small enough to allow being
self-supporting even on Mechanical Turk wages. Perhaps we will settle
for a soft anagorism in which the market still operates, but more
humanely, perhaps through extreme transparency, or better yet, partial
satisfaction of needs through non-market activity."
(<a href="https://anagory.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/is-100-self-employment-either-realistic-or-desirable/" class="external free">https://anagory.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/is-100-self-employment-either-realistic-or-desirable/</a>)
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