I'm curious as to whether anyone else read the tale of incentives that
only went so far before they lost their efficacy as a "Shifting the
Burden" archetype. Aren't all the elements here? Ivan Blanco points -
without concluding - to a future situation in which discussions of
relative competency and the assumption that differing performances are
entitled to differing compensation could become irrelevant. This is the
post-industrial anarchist utopia described by Bookchin and others, viewed
through an organizational theory lens.
Personally, I have my doubts about the arrival of such a utopia, but I
find it desirable nonetheless. And for me, it is implied in some of the
ideas espoused here. If "incentives" is a symptomatic solution leading to
a side effect of no more worlds to conquer, what is the fundamental
solution?
-- Jack Hirschfeld Can analysis be worthwhile? Is the theatre really dead? jack@his.com