Smart Mobs for Parecon

i'd like to discuss it with you.

The balanced job complexes, a pool of jobs that are balanced for empowerment and desirability, imo is friend with situationism in the sense that it dealienates people by multiplicating their tasks and responsibilities and by creating links between people: it renew them with their true desires thus eases the separation from false needs, gives them back the mastery of their lives. I think the dynamism and diversity of activities that makes balanced job complexes can ban frustration, boredom, guilt and can bring passion to social life.

I think "smart mobs for parecon" is an idea that can help to create these new social institutions that will make people's lives like a long moment of extasy. in a good way. glowsticks en sus.

I really think it goes well with participatory economics, I hope many others will agree and get together to work it out.

social constraints regarding what is and isn't above or below a certain person's station (and who you work well with based on other social factors besides, like religious differences or something as simple as physical stature) will nullify a lot of the perceived benefits of your jobs framework, I think. It's not as simple as you make it sound.

Sounds right, I'll bring this up when I'll talk to the user interface guy at tribe.net that is interested in this project.

assume that the whole population has a common goal

This idea might not be for the whole population, but for those wanting an economic system that embodies certain values like self-management, solidarity, diversity, equity. Simply put, Market = antagonist relation buyer/seller, where one gets ahead at the other's lost. That competitive thing structurally induce the worst kind of individualism + antisocial attributes because buyers/sellers only have to care about profits so they ignore the other costs that would have to get into their transactions if they were to really champion the values I mentioned. Instead the market system treat these values as handicaps to be exploited for profit: removing human well being and development to get the cash register to ring as much as it can.

social constraints regarding what is and isn't above or below a certain person's station

To avoid wasting human potential, right? This is an interesting problem, again I'm curious to see what the UI / user psychology guy will make of this. Also, I have yet to have feedback from pro theorists of parecon about all of this. (I would need a catchy name, SMP :smart mob parecon? it got 3 letters!)

(and who you work well with based on other social factors

I don't see this as a problem. Since SMP is made to be nomadic, I assume elective affinities would get spontaneously organized with usage.

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