This theory seems to debunk the classical “people need an economic incentive to do their jobs”: it seems to imply that imposing and economic reward on the tax detracts from the intrinsinc enjoyment of the task by making the task performers think the task is for the sake of the remuneration rather than for its own sake. It also seems to suggest that, were this reward system be removed (but what would it be replaced with, practically speaking?) people might be happier by enjoying their own work.
This theory seems to debunk the classical “people need an economic incentive to do their jobs”
This suggests that if you pay someone to do X, they will be less likely to do X as a hobby, and enjoy X less while they’re doing it. That does not imply that if you didn’t pay them to do X, they would do it enough to satisfy the job requirements.
There are cases where that’s true- open source programming comes to mind- but they seem to be the exception, rather than the norm.
This theory seems to debunk the classical “people need an economic incentive to do their jobs”: it seems to imply that imposing and economic reward on the tax detracts from the intrinsinc enjoyment of the task by making the task performers think the task is for the sake of the remuneration rather than for its own sake. It also seems to suggest that, were this reward system be removed (but what would it be replaced with, practically speaking?) people might be happier by enjoying their own work.
This suggests that if you pay someone to do X, they will be less likely to do X as a hobby, and enjoy X less while they’re doing it. That does not imply that if you didn’t pay them to do X, they would do it enough to satisfy the job requirements.
There are cases where that’s true- open source programming comes to mind- but they seem to be the exception, rather than the norm.