Intro to Participatory Economics

A short introduction to Participatory Economics. Sorry about the spelling errors. I'd have to remove this video and upload a new one to fix it, deleting all the commenters' discussion and breaking links to the video.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Parecon
• participatory
• economics

[Axelgear2006]

Unevenly focused power in worker's councils, a lack of job specialization, and a focus on the labour theory of value... This sounds utterly terrible, the latter part especially. It encourages wasteful inefficiency by making work that takes more time and effort more valuable than work that actually gets tasks done. It limits freedom of movement amongst workers and consumers. It limits humans to being servants of the society, instead of liberated individuals.

Good attempt, but not successful.

[afaultytoaster]

"balanced job complexes" sounds terrible when applied across industries. much better to simply reduce the working hours of employees in unfavourable industries and shift more people there from other industries. this is possible because capitalist societies waste lots of labour on massive unemployment, duplication of effort (via competing firms) and jobs that wouldn't be needed under socialism like advertising

[coreytokar]

Rather than trying to balance out the workload by switch to more/less desirable positions, wouldn't it be simpler to vary the time requirement. For example, with the ice-cream/coal mine scenario couldn't the work week for the coal miner just be shorter?

[coreytokar]

Diversity*

[heavym3tal]

@MsSexySocialist Let me check my messages. I'll let you know either way ;^)

[MsSexySocialist]

@heavym3tal

I did?

Sorry but I actually thought you stopped talking to me.

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I guess you might have sent me something to respond to and I mustn't have gotton it for whatever reason - which happens sometimes.

[BrownMaterial]

@heavym3tal That's no small lost, bro. What's there to discuse with an ignorant piece human shit like her anyways.

[heavym3tal]

@BrownMaterial I was messaging with MsSexySocialist for a while during the Summer of 2011. Not sure why she stopped talking to me...

[heavym3tal]

@BrownMaterial it happens

[MsSexySocialist]

@BrownMaterial

If my opinion is nothing to you then why did you bother responding to me at all? ^^

Surely someone who thinks "less than nothing" of another wouldn't even dignify them with an answer.

As for me giving a "harsh rebuttal", I can't really see anything to rebut.

Your page is inaccessible and all you did in both messages you directed at me was fling infantile insults with zero substance.

Go back to watching Fox News.