Monday, October 13, 2008

The End of Happyism






1 comment:

  1. Hmm, I have an issue with this, perhaps it is just semantics, but I'd prefer to be a happy individual than a productive one. Given the choice. It all depends on the definition I guess, the two are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps it boils down to the habit of abstraction. I mean if some economist somewhere says that my productivity numbers are not good enough I will rail against that view, for I am a human with emotions etc. An unnecessary response, but one brought about by the reduction of my value to a series of digits. I saw this in a company I worked in before, peoples share allocation was linked to their value to the company very explicitly during a change of ownership. Those that received lots of shares were just as outraged by the whole thing as those that received few. The result? They all fecked off, the most valuable being the first to move.


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