Interesting video on human behavior
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Sounds like a bunch of Marxist bullshit to me.
"Oh, look at us. We've like, totally transcended the profit motive. So like, we want inner-purpose more than monetary incentives, cuz we're like, real people with souls."
Straight out of Das Kapital. Don't buy this shit.
"Oh, look at us. We've like, totally transcended the profit motive. So like, we want inner-purpose more than monetary incentives, cuz we're like, real people with souls."
Straight out of Das Kapital. Don't buy this shit.
Never got that vibe from the video myself.
What I got was more "you can pay some one all the money in the world, but if there is no satisfaction in their job, it wont improve their performance"
I was reading some tech blogs last night and found the video, the blogs that linked to the video were also advocating for paying top of market rates to their employees but also having a enjoyable work environment.
In terms of Rand and Capitalism, it's not anti-capitalist to want to be compensated with something other than money.
I personally love the speech by Gordon Gekko in Wallstreet about greed.
interesting video. i think one area it falls short is in saying "..the truth about what motivates us" instead of "...that truth about what motivates some of us". it ignores the idea that we all have different value hierarchies.
a better title to the vid might be "for some people, mastery and purpose are more important than money. for those people, increased compensation won't translate into higher creativity." but they didn't use that title because the response to such a statement is obviously "no shit" and nobody would click on it.
the truest statement in the vid was "give people enough money so its no longer an issue". for creative/purpose driven types, this will be less; for success/wealth driven types this will be more. the vid assumes everyone is a creative/purpose driven type, which is obviously wrong.
a better title to the vid might be "for some people, mastery and purpose are more important than money. for those people, increased compensation won't translate into higher creativity." but they didn't use that title because the response to such a statement is obviously "no shit" and nobody would click on it.
the truest statement in the vid was "give people enough money so its no longer an issue". for creative/purpose driven types, this will be less; for success/wealth driven types this will be more. the vid assumes everyone is a creative/purpose driven type, which is obviously wrong.
