What Motivates Us May Save Us ?! Hint: its not money

An idea, a good one but what now?

This video presentation kind of reinforces anarchist theory in reference to a society without labor, actually the buzz word is "post left anarchy". I know its radical stuff .. spooky
The theory touches on using play to achieve work. An example of play achieving work is using a biking system to generate power on a smart street using magnetic parts running generators giving free energy and health to the community, a win win situation for all. Of course though this requires a massive paradigm shift in our mentality and our way of designing our environments.

The classical critique is that we human beings only do things for selfish incentives. We can look back to our entire tool making history to see that we actually do things because we like to make our lives easier and desire more leisure time. Our hunter gatherer ancestors understood this innately and probably would find our perceived way of motivating a society with monetary incentive oppressive.

Since we have lived in a boss-worker society since feudalism we as humans beings simply couldn't imagine a society that functioned otherwise. However rapidly advancing technology is the game changer and now more we are rapidly approaching a world without any need for labor a la technological unemployment. It would be naive to think contemporary society is ready to shift gears due to conditioning but in these interesting times it seems changing how societies function is becoming ever so pressing.

This is a classic .

I liked that very much. Thank you for sharing this piece.

Exactly!

This philosophy is how I built successful sales teams and got the most cooperation from support teams when I was in the corporate world. It's how we helped build two successful companies.

I told prospective employees I wasn't interested in people in it for the money. I told them if they love what they do and they're provided the flexibility of how they want to do it, the money will fall into place. It was never the goal of my partners and I to sell off to a major corporation for an outrageous amount (to us) of money. We built a quality company and it happened.

When we had a company with a lot of programmers they came up with some great ideas. We had very creative people. We only gave them the essence of what we needed. How they got there was up to them. They had five days of freedom every week. Sometimes I would walk by a programmer's cube at 7pm. I would suggest they go home. They would say they're on the verge of something cool and stay until whenever.

Great video, figg! It's time to get motivated for a revolution!

This research has been around for over 40 years and free-marketers have been willfully ignoring it since. This is a well replicated fact in my field of Cognitive-behavioral Psychology, but for some reason has yet to come into the public view until Dan Pink came around. I really do hope it isnt too late to change our culture before we devour ourselves completely.

Personally, I think THIS may be the best thing I have seen on c u r r e n t in a loooooooooooooooooooong long time. VERY +^d . "Featured" at "culture".

+^d !

Loved the Vid Figg, now how do we motivate people for the Revolution?