If We Need To Encourage People To Work After The Rev

higglety:

thepeacockangel:

minotaurtears:

canofsexy:

thepeacockangel:

(which I doubt) I suggest we have a variety of apps and online games, that give you little xbox achievements for socially necessary labor or like armor upgrades for MMOs and shit, people find WOW and Candy Crush and validation from their fitbit addictive, surely we can use these principals to encourage labor while freely giving the products to people as needed.

Im sorry, who would make those? We can barely motivate people to work with capitalism what makes you think the drug addicts and “yung thugs” in the streets are going to suddenly want to pitch in? Getting some sweet ‘chieve’s? Yeah ok thats worth a lot (pro tip: gamers like achievements because theyre recognition for doing something that not everyone can accomplish, not because we like the little ding and picture that pops up)

Step one: Create a dress-up or pet type game that relies on grinding at boring labor to collect points for buying clothes/pets/whatever.

Step two: Watch everything get done because people already waste ridiculous amounts of time for in-game currency without any actual real life benefit. Because it feels good for brain chemicals to achieve and also get pretty and shiny shit even if it’s just meaningless pixels.

and this is how you can get people to assemble widgets while giving them free everything else.

…….. what you’ve just described is capitalism. except for instead of our current set of arbitrarily-valued currency, people would be grinding for a different set of arbitrarily-valued points.

Nah because you get food, entertainment, clothes, furniture, all material goods free.  The only currency that exists is for buying clothes for your virtual dog.  The clothes for your real dog are free.

Also there are no bosses and participation in utopian post-communist neko atsume is completely optional, participation in the money system under capitalism is not.

Starvation and not getting the ultra special bonus fountain for your imaginary yard aren’t the same thing.

Also you’re confused about the definition of capitalism.

Also we could just create a game that involves the assembling of widgets so we make it entertaining.  If swapping imaginary candies around for a hit of dopamine works surely we can figure a way to create that hit of dopamine with other activities.

Also like no one can amass points and then use those points to pay people to amass more points for them.  They’re non-transferable.  If you have no employers, you cannot have capitalism.  There is no class system.  There are no capitalists.