nlc wrote:swift2540 wrote:
How are things better?
Not for me,
it remains totally naive as a system and can not work: to give just enough to live every month to everyone (in monetary creation and more), makes that by definition more and more people are going to take it easy, and small to small there will be less and less good and services offered since everyone goes precisely
take it easy.
No, not more than currently. It all depends on how it would be done and what kind of measures would be taken. There is evidence that in society, normally constituted people seek by nature to make themselves useful ...! Moreover, on pain of falling sick if they are not
enough active. Thus nothing would prevent encouraging people to work of general interest ... Nothing would prevent valuing part of the neglected actions of civil society (due to non-profitability). One of the first sectors which would benefit from it would be that of so-called "arduous" work, as in the agricultural world.
Moreover we must remember the figures of absenteeism in the world today! About 4 to 5%

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http://www.sd.be/site/website/be/fr/100 ... _060309_15Figures for Belgium, but this trend is European:
http://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-econ ... age-79.htmAbsenteeism is progressing, so it is not the current trend towards ultra-liberalism that provides a solution to this problem.
We see that the system in place does not escape! Curiously, we can see that abenteism can vary from simple to triple depending on the number of people involved (!!!):
Dexia Assurances wrote:Absences from work due to health reasons: an increasing rate of absenteeism, which varies according to the workforce, in communities or health institutions
In 2008, absenteeism rate varies between 5,9 and 8,7% according to the size of the community and between 8,8 and 13% following membership of the hospital [...]
Trends to remember:
* depending on the size of the community, from 70 to 80% of the absent agents stop because of ordinary illness (61 to 75% in health facilities);
* the standard illness alone represents 40 and 52% of community days off, and between 33 and 46% in institutions;
* agents stop three times more often in communities of 350 agents or more than in those of less than 10 agents.
[...] it should be noted that the average annual direct cost of absences varies, depending on the workforce, between 1 171 and 1 798 euros in local authorities and between 2 317 and 3 368 euros in hospitals (2008 figures) .
(Although other studies do not corroborate, there are significant trends that show that it is not related to a general phenomenon tending toward idleness ...)This bends the neck with this received idea, according to which we would be feigners by nature ... By cons the "framework" of work plays a key role!
As an example, stress abentism can last - for chronic cases - up to several years for severe cases (I mean medical absenteeism).
What makes me say that in a new system anchored on a minimum base salary, we should take into account ALL the parameters, before saying that people absolutely want to "take it easy"! A typical example that contradicts this is the school field, where children are NOT paid, the rate of absenteeism hardly varies from that of the "world of work":

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http://pedagogie.ac-toulouse.fr/zep/tab ... 00/2b.htmlSo, on the total mass of employees only 2,5% of the workforce would be absent for unjustified reasons:

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http://chroniques-ordinaires-jr.blogspot.com/2010/11/contre-visites-medicales-vendre-plutot.html... Paradox: absenteeism could well disappear when there is no longer a need to "be absent" to be paid.
One could then ask the real questions to know by virtue of which some collaborators are absent and find the real parries adapted by modifying for example the production tool. On this subject, here is an interesting graph showing that absenteeism has several variables, but the trend that emerges shows many questions more specifically related to motivation and not necessarily due to idleness:

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http://www.uimm.fr/fr/publications/enquete.htmlBecause since 1998, the growth of the frequency and the dangerousness of the accidents is alarming:

Source: Dexia
PDF: ...>Another graph would tend to show that absenteeism is more "cultural" in the regional sense:

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Alma Consulting, ...>The simple prospect of WINNING MORE
Actually would make the difference anyway ... And the principle of natural competition would apply anyway.
By cons yes: it would require imagination and other efforts ...

nlc wrote:As a result, prices will rise because more demand than supply. The company and its monetary system is a very complex system that is in my opinion impossible to simulate with 100 people who arrive on a desert island.
And so ... The fact that prices would go up would allow the system to self-regulate, since immediately others would start offering what has value (although what is at the center is not so much a a question of price than a question of the real value of goods and services ... => hence the secondary question which poses a fundamental reflection on the need to absolutely make an exchange of service VS against service by the vector of change). It is however a normal reflex induced by fear, amha!
nlc wrote:And those who will have the niak and who will work hard to win more will not hesitate to do it, and in the end we will cry scandal because differences in wealth will quickly be created.
But that will not happen, for the principles described above. We just have to put the cursors back where our moral sense should make us place it naturally. So we would have to legislate. Although everyone is aware that such a system could not emerge spontaneously, but at least it gives us clues to question what exists for good reasons ... If you know what I mean
