Criticisms
David Schweickart suggests Participatory Economics would be undesirable even if it was possible, accusing it of being:
- "a system obsessed with comparison (Is your job complex more empowering than mine?), with monitoring (You are not working at average intensity, mate--get with the program), with the details of consumption (How many rolls of toilet paper will I need next year? Why are some of my neighbors still using the kind not made of recycled paper?"
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