If We Need To Encourage People To Work After The Rev

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.