If you were dropped in the middle of nowhere and had to survive that way, the quantity and quality of work that you did would be directly connected with your survival and general enjoyment of life. In ancient prehistoric cultures, everybody did close to the same thing as each other (picking berries and hunting mammoths). And when they get bored of it, they stop doing it, unless they're offered some kind of reward for it. And so people tend to get tired of it pretty quickly. But work is far less easy and fun than trick-or-treating, and far more frequent. Dressing up like a cowboy and going around asking people for chocolate bars once a year is easy and fun, and maybe if work were as easy, fun and infrequent as trick-or-treating, we wouldn't mind sharing most of what we make. Work is hard and unpleasant, and there's a lot of it to be done. And so when we're adults, and other adults suggest reorganizing the entire economy to work like little Freddy and his brother with their Halloween candy, it sounds like a good idea.īut here's the problem. 'Listen up Freddy, be a good boy and share your Halloween candy with your little brother.' We have it drilled into our heads from a young age that that's the responsible, humane thing to do. What if we all just, like, shared everything and didn't waste time trying to claim things for ourselves? It appeals to that sense that sharing is some sort of moral duty like our parents told us when we were kids.
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