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Well, in my opinion money captures a very small amount of what is going on in the market. For example, for each job I do, how fast and well I do it, and whether I do it at all, the money I charge is an approximation of the actual workd +/- all these little things that go unsaid.
If I would change my invoicing system so that the invoices were automatically sent to clients for the precise amounts of time I have spent on their tasks, it would actually make the system *less* just for me. (To make it more just I would have to enter modifiers like "sweet, but clueless client" or "fucking boring job" or "damn I hate this product", or, probably, "this client knows what they're doing" or "this was actually fun" or "OMG this product makes the world better, I would gladly advertise it for free!" in my invoices, which would be more precise, but probably would damage further relationship with the client - and before you say that it's a small matter, for me, these things can mean a difference between 30 minutes, an hour or 1.5 hours. The fun thing is that I think the clients know this, they just wouldn't want to be told, and I am not that keen on telling either.)
Similarly for nearly all the interactions: I don't have a perfect memory of the things that I have said to everybody and the things that were said to me and I don't think that any of my relationships would improve if all these things would be remembered forever (there is a lot to say for "forgive and forget", especially for small grievances).
The thing is, I think most relationships have a leeway for "cheating and sabotaging"; and there are few promises that are made to keep (and very few promises that are actually worth keeping) - and this goes both for small-scale interpersonal relationships and for large-scale relationships between "the mob" and "the rulers" of various sorts. Would these relationships become better and more efficient when everything is recorded and can be referred to? I don't know. (As in "I really don't know, it's something that I cannot possibly predict, since so much would change".)
If I would change my invoicing system so that the invoices were automatically sent to clients for the precise amounts of time I have spent on their tasks, it would actually make the system *less* just for me. (To make it more just I would have to enter modifiers like "sweet, but clueless client" or "fucking boring job" or "damn I hate this product", or, probably, "this client knows what they're doing" or "this was actually fun" or "OMG this product makes the world better, I would gladly advertise it for free!" in my invoices, which would be more precise, but probably would damage further relationship with the client - and before you say that it's a small matter, for me, these things can mean a difference between 30 minutes, an hour or 1.5 hours. The fun thing is that I think the clients know this, they just wouldn't want to be told, and I am not that keen on telling either.)
Similarly for nearly all the interactions: I don't have a perfect memory of the things that I have said to everybody and the things that were said to me and I don't think that any of my relationships would improve if all these things would be remembered forever (there is a lot to say for "forgive and forget", especially for small grievances).
The thing is, I think most relationships have a leeway for "cheating and sabotaging"; and there are few promises that are made to keep (and very few promises that are actually worth keeping) - and this goes both for small-scale interpersonal relationships and for large-scale relationships between "the mob" and "the rulers" of various sorts. Would these relationships become better and more efficient when everything is recorded and can be referred to? I don't know. (As in "I really don't know, it's something that I cannot possibly predict, since so much would change".)
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