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People-First Economics: Making a Clean Start for Jobs, Justice and Climate

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Hmm, I must say I wanted to read a good book here. I wanted to see some real facts with solid arguments. Instead you get a collection of essays, which I must say were not written for this book and with a few exceptions are just copied off the authors blogs, with the same old 'capitalism sucks, working class, working class' . Now some of the papers bring up good points, like how nations with more equal income distribution have lower crime rates... word.

But then we somehow get to the marxist dribble of Michael Albeet. He suggest that workers should all gather together and just vote on pay, production and who's work is valuable . Now this sounds like a good idea untill he proclaims this brave new world will vote to pay him for writing "social commentaries " ,but at the same time will decide not to vote to pay someone to compose music, since that work won't have "value".
Wait WTF is going on here, instead of having a market determine the wealth of ones work, you'd suggest we set up a system were workers have to constantly convince the masses there work has value, and in this new system of course Mr. Albeet will be able to sit at home writing social commentaries instead of doing real work.
So what happens when this votting concil doesn't see the value in complex highly skilled sewage mantanince , thus your drains stop working .

It's a bunch of logical problems with the new socities the writers propose that ruin this book.

Not to mention I feel a bit scamec paying 16$ for a collection of old essays . Instead of charging 5$ for the book and asking us to donate an additional ammount the writters want to make sure there paid, seems like greedy capitalism to me...