What kind of gaming the system were you thinking of?
Yeah, bidding = deception. But in addition to someonewrong’s answer, I was thinking you could just end up doing a shitty job at things (e.g. cleaning the bathroom). Which is to say, if this were an actual labor market, and not a method of communicating between people who like each other and have outside-the-market reasons to cooperate, the market doesn’t have much competition.
Yeah, that’s unfortunately not something we can really handle other than decreeing “Doing this chore entails doing X and it doesn’t count if you don’t do X.” Enforcing the system isn’t solved by the system itself.
a method of communicating between people who like each other and have outside-the-market reasons to cooperate
Except she specifies that if they’re bidding above market wages for a task (cleaning the bathroom would work fine), they’ll just pay someone else to do it. Of course, chores like getting up to deal with a sick child are not so outsourceable.
Yeah, bidding = deception. But in addition to someonewrong’s answer, I was thinking you could just end up doing a shitty job at things (e.g. cleaning the bathroom). Which is to say, if this were an actual labor market, and not a method of communicating between people who like each other and have outside-the-market reasons to cooperate, the market doesn’t have much competition.
Yeah, that’s unfortunately not something we can really handle other than decreeing “Doing this chore entails doing X and it doesn’t count if you don’t do X.” Enforcing the system isn’t solved by the system itself.
Good way to describe it.
Except she specifies that if they’re bidding above market wages for a task (cleaning the bathroom would work fine), they’ll just pay someone else to do it. Of course, chores like getting up to deal with a sick child are not so outsourceable.