Almost like it demoralizes people that care about their work while incentivizing people to simply put in the hours and not give a fuck.
You’re right, but I don’t know that we as socialists should encourage this framing. It allows too much room for CEOs and PMC ghouls to point towards market growth parameters (which are still stolen labour abstacted into capitalist numerology) and claim this justifies their obscene salaries.
I can also see how this line of reasoning could be twisted to support underpaying those perceived as being less productive because the chosen metric fails to capture their contributions.
The framing, even if it were made in good faith (which I doubt), is still woke capitalism at best. No amount of optimisation will make wage labour fair and no amount of emplyee fulfillment research will stop capitalist alienation. These are baked into the code of the system.
Cool, who cares? If someone who “cares” about their work is demoralised by the “lazy bastards” getting as much money as them, they’re fucked in the head and need reprogramming.
I don’t care about my coworkers dicking around on the job because I know that we don’t get paid more for working harder anyway and it leads to more of us just putting in the hours and not giving a fuck. I think people took the wrong message from what I said, perhaps I could have worded it better? That and they deserve better pay to begin with just for putting up with a job that sucks and is dehumanizing.
