Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
The thing with capitalism, and if anyone disagrees please do say, is that the idea is to put a value on things which currently we are so far away from actually being able to do that the idea gets ignored and we talk about money. Incentives are a great thing but they have to be relevant, for example job security has an incredible value that people don't really value correct and a lot of people are very falsely under the impression that their job is much safer than it really is. Anyway a better point is that personal development in your role is an absolutely huge incentive & for a lot of things vastly superior to money incentives whilst also leading to some of the other qualities mentioned such as self-respect. Those should all be accounted for in a real economic system but obviously doing so is hard whereas saying £5 > £4 therefore incentive is too simplistic and as a result when applied across the board it's wrong.
You're definitely thinking like an economist.