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If you free up the peer/employee/worker from thinking about the constraints of scarcity of money, doesn't the next resource of scarcity become time (or perhaps, intellectual property)? Which can still lead to a straying from the candor and other ideals this compensation system hopes to promote. The corporation still owns all your time, and all your production during that time.

I just can't help but think this scarcity of resources still causes poor incentives that lead to not as good human/team outcomes. Maybe better than in a "normal" compensation structure though?



It is true that scarcity along any dimension sucks at some level. (Though it can also help develop the skill set to manage that scarcity well.)

But some scarcities are more fundamental than others.




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