I’m listening to the webcast right now and it’s unbelievable how full of themselves these people are. Does the host realize how much he sounds like MASH’s Charles Winchester III?
These people are jerking off to their nostalgia for what they did when they were young. Which leads me to a thought. Stone’s intern just keeps going over and over what he did for Stone and how great it was. He obviously thinks this was a peak experience in his life. But I’m sure I.F. Stone wasn’t paying him much at all for working impossible hours. Many of us have done similar things for the same kind of pay and feel the same way about it, though not all of us blather on and on about it. A free lance graduate school time of our lives — working for love or change or to learn. (Or in the case of Rovians, working out of hatred, fear, envy and for power.)
That this — rather than money — is what motivates people to work the hardest and to be the most effective they can be puts the lie to the capitalist notion that you have to pay people a lot of money to get them to perform. I’m not saying money doesn’t help. But de-alienating (in the 1848 Manuscript sense) people from their work does seem to motivate them even more than paying them a lot.
Money is the consolation of the alienated?

Posted by: kaleidescope | Sep 26 2006 18:38 utc | 3