Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: “We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”

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    How do you allocate scarce resources? Competition

    Competition is far from the only way to allocate scarce resources. If you make one box of mac and cheese, do you make your kids fight over who gets what share?

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          There is a bond within family that makes sharing food possible. There is distrust between strangers so that sharing is not usual. Generally people don’t share food at work.

          What is needed to establish sharing as the primary way to resolve conflicts?

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            People share food all the time at work – if there’s a cake at an office party, you don’t fight over who gets what. People share more important things at work, too, like a saw at a construction site or a printer in an office. Competion has its uses, but it’s often destructive and wasteful.

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                  Cake is a present where everybody gets a slice because the cake was selected accordingly.

                  If only one person can get promoted, or an increased budget for wages is available, could that be resolved without managers, not just in theory but all over the world?

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                    We’re talking about allocting scarce resources via cooperation, not competition. Whether you could make every organization completely flat (no managers) is tangential.

                    I see what you’re getting at, though, and yes, of course we can allocate scarce resources by cooperation at a global scale. It already happens even in capitalist countries on issues of tremendous importance, see the negotiations around how water from the Colorado River is allocated.

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          Right, but it’s not personal relations that prevent the fighting but the threat of being expelled.

          You are essentially arguing that it takes capitalistic ownership to enforce social behavior.

          How do you prevent knife-fights outside the mall?

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            Nah, I don’t knife fight people in the mall because that shit sucks and I have been educated about it. It isn’t because society will deny me a Cinnabon if I do.